Logos, please offer a dramatically different way of interacting with Logos for Bible passages - one that does not require the user to know where to find information. While I have a visual image of how I would implement it, I will deliberately not request a specific way to present it but rather list its desired behavior. This is built on two assumptions:
- The real guts of Logos is embedded in the context menu (which needs to have the clausal data added IIRC)
- People use Logos either to (a) understand the passage by understanding how Logos has tagged it OR (b) to understand the passage through the questions the Logos tagging raises.
While this sounds like an oversimplification, this is more complex that it initially sounds for it includes why this sense of a word rather than, why this parsing rather than, why this genre rather than, why this theological theme rather than …
Step 1:
- User: Enters a passage reference
- Application: Builds a table with the passage references or text if the passage is a single verse across top. The table is a horizontal bar chart with the top bar showing pericope breaks with title & reference on hover. Each subsequent bar shows the begin and end points of the elements detailed in the Context Menu, again with title & reference on hover. Note the references shown may extend beyond the selected text - it should show the full length of the element.
- Result: the user has a visual image of the tagging on the passage in a way that makes the transitions occurring in the passage obvious. To see more detail, they simply shorten the passage reference.
Step 2:
- User: Clicks on a specific bar segment
- Application: Returns links to the appropriate (a) Factbook entry (b) Passage/Topic Guide section (c ) Study Assistant or Search with suggested queries to explore meaning of tagging, rationale of tagging, follow-on questions implied by tagging (d) in some cases, a specialized tool or reference book e.g. Strong numbers
- Result: the user is plopped in a specific location related to their interest without knowing anything about where information is in Logos; if there is further information, they are lead to it; if there is none, there is no link.
There should be single click methods to work your way back to (a) the suggested questions if relevant, (b) the Factbook/Guide/Tool choice (c ) passage tagging "map/chart"
