How does the "Illustrations" section in the PG choose its illustrations?

Graham Criddle

Hi

I was running a PG on Acts 6:1-7 and looked at the Illustration section and saw some things in there which didn't seem particularly relevant. So I reduced the scope to Acts 6:1 and got the results below:

It's not at all clear that some of these are relevant to the (admittedly small) passage so interested to find out how the selection algorithm works.

(The information posted by Todd at http://community.logos.com/forums/p/28843/213554.aspx#213554 no longer seems to be present in the logs so something might have changed hence this new post. This is on 4.2aB6)

Any insight appreciated.

Graham

Todd Phillips

The topics listed (Churches, Hebrew, Faithfulness, Murmuring, Deacon, and Widows) seem appropriate to the passage to me.  The illustrations might not be relevant to the passage, but they are relevant to the associated topic.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/218080#Comment_218080

Thanks Todd - and I agree that the topics are relevant to the passage and the illustrations to the topic.

But if  we end up with are a set of illustrations related to a topic its still going to be quite difficult to go through them and find something that's relevant to the passage.

I guess that's what I'm struggling with as I try and understand how to use this feature.

Graham

 

Todd Phillips

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/218081#Comment_218081

Graham Criddle said:

But if  we end up with are a set of illustrations related to a topic its still going to be quite difficult to go through them and find something that's relevant to the passage.

I guess that's what I'm struggling with as I try and understand how to use this feature.

Logos is just automating a few of the steps you might go through to find an illustration, but I can't see how it would be the judge of relevancy.  Perhaps if relevant illustrations were already tagged with the relevant passages, then Logos' automation could show those.  But most of the illustrations resources are topical.

 

tom

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/218083#Comment_218083

Todd Phillips said:

Graham Criddle said:

But if  we end up with are a set of illustrations related to a topic its still going to be quite difficult to go through them and find something that's relevant to the passage.

I guess that's what I'm struggling with as I try and understand how to use this feature.

Logos is just automating a few of the steps you might go through to find an illustration, but I can't see how it would be the judge of relevancy.  Perhaps if relevant illustrations were already tagged with the relevant passages, then Logos' automation could show those.  But most of the illustrations resources are topical.

I just ran a passage guide report, and in this report I have the new illustration section and a collection for my illustrations.  In this report, the new illustration section did not find anything based on topics.  My collection, based on verses, found 28 illustrations.