Macarthur commentaries need to be tagged

TCBlack

I ran into this little anomally while browsing and noted that the MacArthur commentaries need to be tagged as such.  

note the pic:

Todd Phillips

Alternately annoying is that if you select "Commentaries" first, then MacArthur doesn't even show up in the Author selection.

I guess this is because they are truncating the Authors list for display (even after I select More), and since MacArthur only appears to have 3 commentaries, he's not high enough in the list to show up.

Seems like there should be some way to select from all the authors.  I guess you have to use search if one doesn't show up.

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190424#Comment_190424

I seriously can't imagine going through 12,000 + resources and tagging every single one of them with all the various fields.  

It's a monumental task.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190428#Comment_190428

Thomas Black said:

I seriously can't imagine going through 12,000 + resources and tagging every single one of them with all the various fields.  

It's a monumental task.

I'm surprised they didn't preload it with the internal types from the metadata.  Or if they did, how did they miss things like the MacArthur commentaries?

TCBlack

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190438#Comment_190438

That sounds like a nightmare for a poor scripter like me.

1. XML extract and tabulate the data from the resources.
2. xslt transform the data into the proper format for the site
3. inject/import transformed xml into the sql (or whatever) database for the site.  

It gives me a headache just thinking of the things that could go wrong.

 

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190445#Comment_190445

It sounds easier than manually keying 12000 resource updates.  Besides if things go wrong, you modify the script and reload.

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190449#Comment_190449

The guy who's doing the job has been writing in other threads. It has to be done manually; no computer can figure out whether a resource is Catholic or Puritan. He's been at it a month, and expects to be done in one or two more.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/190474#Comment_190474

fgh said:

The guy who's doing the job has been writing in other threads. It has to be done manually; no computer can figure out whether a resource is Catholic or Puritan. He's been at it a month, and expects to be done in one or two more.

I understand the additional tagging needed.  Mostly I was referring to resource type: the basic resource type is already a part of the resource metadata, including "commentary" and "bible commentary".  Using that as the first cut is what I meant by "preload", then they could go back and manually add additional typing for the web site (that isn't supported by the Logos4 app: like biography, systematic theology, introductions).  But I'm sure they've thought of it...I was just wondering why it turned out the way it did.