Grudem's Systematic Theology needs a tagging update.

Wayne Grudem's Systematic Theology is a widely used theology book. and it works well as a starting point for researching a topic since it references so many other theology works. Many (most?) of these other works are available in Logos, yet Grudem's ST links to almost none of them.

Check out this chapter bibliography below. References highlighted in green are working links, and references in yellow are unlinked but available in Logos (or soon will be as noted):

(BTW, Buswell is available in Logos, but in a Spanish translation only. So I didn't highlight it.)

Grudem's resource would be an extremely efficient tool for theological comparison if only the references were linked.

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Mark Smith

Grudem's resource would be an extremely efficient tool for theological comparison if only the references were linked.

Agreed. Please put this up near the top of the list to retag, Logos.

NetworkGeek

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/196054#Comment_196054

This issue is being addressed in general as part of a bigger effort across all resources:

From our text development team...

As several of you have correctly observed, the single task of attempting to add links from every existing resource to every possible new resource is an overwhelming one and has the potential to be prohibitively expensive. We are neither ignoring the problem nor throwing up our hands, however. Several months ago, we created a dedicated team to assess the multitude of possible updates that could be done to our existing resources. As we have discovered, this is not limited to simply adding links or correcting typos. With the increased functionality and features of Logos 4, we are considering updates to metadata, heading fields, page numbering, biblio milestones, image tagging, headwords and other issues. The team has been creating tools to analyze our resources so that we can prioritize and automate as much of the updating as possible. They have also been drafting recommendations for automating the updating tasks and we are in the process of developing tools for that purpose. After these processes and tools are prototyped and tested, we will be contracting out the vast majority of the manual aspect of the work in order to accelerate the updates to our most critical resources.

While some work has been done on typo corrections, we have run into a significant delay because the system we use to store the typo reports was not designed to scale up to the massive number of resources and users that we are now trying to accommodate. We are in the process of evaluating some different solutions to this problem, but it will be awhile before we will likely have a better system in place.

One issue that is of immediate concern is the "missing links" reported in newly published resources. With very few exceptions, we intend to create every possible link to existing resources when we publish a new resource. The specific examples in this thread are being investigated and will be corrected. We will also be reviewing the typo reports for "missing link" comments in newly published resources. If you have specific examples that you would like to share with us, please add them to this thread or start a new one and we will give those immediate attention.

The thoughtful and helpful tone of this thread is most encouraging and we want you all to know that we are listening and hard at work to make the improvements that you have suggested. We can certainly do a better job of communicating what we are working on and will look for ways to provide that information to all our users.

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/196095#Comment_196095

This issue is being addressed in general as part of a bigger effort across all resources:

I'm aware of that thread, however I posted to point out the necessity of this resource being prioritized (along with other widely used resources like AYDB, of course).