Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary doesn't have linked entries

I would have expected that in resource like the Anchor Bible Dictionary, all its entries, when mentioned in other place (within the same ABD) to have links to their corresponding meaning. Should it? Like in the Lexicons, or for example NEW DICTIONARY OF BIBLICAL THEOLOGY, where, in a glance, you know if an entry is in that resource and inmediatly, in a pop-up menu, check its meaning.

And, how do I know if a resource has this function?

Saludos amigos!

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DMB

I can understand why that might be useful, especially in Anchor where the articles are quite detailed. But, probabably I'm in the minority but that type of system in Encyclopaedia of Christianity drives me up the wall. Maybe the difference is there's so many cross-references in EOC.

Bob Pritchett

When there's a "See ARTICLE" link in ABD, it's a hyperlink in Logos.

Is this what you mean? Or do you expect every word that's also the name of an article to be a link?

EDUARDO JIMENEZ

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/351648#Comment_351648

Well, I suppouse it's a function like this. As you see the highlighted terms "Ebal" and "Abimelec" are links to their own meaning in this resource. In the pop-up you see the reference.

function like this:

EDUARDO JIMENEZ

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/351648#Comment_351648

Or do you expect every word that's also the name of an article to be a link?

It's too much to ask/expect?

fgh

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/352084#Comment_352084

Or do you expect every word that's also the name of an article to be a link?

It's too much to ask/expect?

Looking at your image, Ebal and Abimelec have links, but Canaán and Gerizim do not, though I'm guessing there are articles for those as well? In that case it's looking to me like Logos is doing exactly the same thing for both dictionaries: they're linking where the original publisher intended to link, but not elsewhere, which seems like the proper thing to do.

If you double-click on a word it will always bring up your highest prioritized dictionary. Which means that if you use advanced prioritization you should be able to make any dictionary always bring up itself, if that's what you want. That's a much better solution than what you propose, because with your suggestion the link would always go only within the resource, regardless of what prioritization I might prefer.

EDUARDO JIMENEZ

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/352091#Comment_352091

If you double-click on a word it will always bring up your highest prioritized dictionary.

Ok. I must apologize. I was too hasty in what I said. [:$]

EDUARDO JIMENEZ

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/352104#Comment_352104

Ok. I must apologize. I was too hasty in what I said.

Should I? [:^)]

Behind the Scenes: What Happens When Your Book Gets Updated?

Kent Hendricks

| Tue, May 8, 2012

| Products

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One of the best parts of owning a book in Logos is that it’s constantly updated for free.
If you pay careful attention, you might notice new links and other
obvious updates. But most of the updates happen under the hood—like
updates to milestones, data types, and other pieces of functionality
that make Logos books shine.

Here’s an example of the work we did on one of our resources, the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary.

Updating the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary
The Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary is just under 7,300,000 words long.
After looking at user-submitted typo reports and going over the entire
dictionary ourselves, we identified around 800 typos, and fixed all of
them. Or, to put it differently, we went from 99.989% accuracy to as
close to 100% as possible. (I’m hesitant to say we hit 100%, because
with a work this big, it’s inevitable that we—and all our users—missed
one.)
This is even more impressive when you consider that 20% of the words in the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary are in languages other than English:
Aramaic, Danish, German, Greek, Spanish, French, Hebrew, Icelandic,
Italian, Latin, Dutch, Norwegian, and a few other languages. There are
also 61,141 words transliterated into English. That means finding typos
is a little more complicated than running a spellchecker.
How We Fix Typos
Fixing typos isn’t as clear cut as it sounds. For some words, there isn’t a clear consensus on the correct spelling, like gray and grey.
And a surprisingly large number of typos aren’t actually typos—they’re
submitted by U.S. users encountering U.K. spelling, and vice versa. Many
U.K. users report words like center as a typo, but U.S. users report centre.
(As a general rule, we follow the print edition.) Other words are
reported because they’re unfamiliar: we’ve received multiple reports of pine nut as a typo, with pine cone as the suggested correction. But a pine nut is a real thing, and it’s possibly referenced in Song of Songs 6:11.
For some of our resources, it’s not unusual to check a typo report
against the print edition, only to find the typo exists in print as
well. Fortunately this isn’t a problem with the print edition of the
Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, but with 22,000 books in Logos, there are
bound to be typos even in well-proofed print source material. But unlike
print, the Logos edition can be updated.
More Than Typo Updates
In addition to the typo fixes in the Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary, we also added 4,810 bibliographic milestones. We added links for 39,080 bibliographic citations—both to resources already in your library and to resources that don’t yet exist, but will someday. We also linked thousands of references to 61 new data types.
The Anchor Bible Dictionary is just one of around 22,000 resources available in Logos.
At any given time, we’re making thorough updates to hundreds of books,
adding links, functionality, and other tweaks to make your books shine
in current and future versions of Logos. All the updates work on all
your devices—Mac, PC, iPhone, iPad, Android phones and tablets, and
Biblia.com. You always have access to the latest and greatest.

Marco Foti

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/366846#Comment_366846

Kent,

please, help me to solve another apparent issue with ABD. I have included the ABD within a collection named "Preferred Dictionaries". The same collection is included in "My Passage Guide". However, when I'm studying a passage (let's say, Mark 10:17-30), searching within the "Preferred Dictionaries" collection inside "My Passage Guide", I can't find any reference to ABD, while other "preferred" dictionaries entries are correctly included.

Besides, a basic search with Mark 10:17-30 gives me the expected ABD's references.

Have you got any idea? God bless you.

Philana Crouch

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/411730#Comment_411730

Kent,

please, help me to solve another apparent issue with ABD. I have included the ABD within a collection named "Preferred Dictionaries". The same collection is included in "My Passage Guide". However, when I'm studying a passage (let's say, Mark 10:17-30), searching within the "Preferred Dictionaries" collection inside "My Passage Guide", I can't find any reference to ABD, while other "preferred" dictionaries entries are correctly included.

Besides, a basic search with Mark 10:17-30 gives me the expected ABD's references.

Have you got any idea? God bless you.

Marco,

Since this is an older thread, and not about the specific issue originally addressed it would be a good idea to create a new thread about this topic. You might want to include what version of Logos you're using and you operating system as well.

Blessings