Building a Sermon Index/Biography Index PB for all Authors. Any Interest?

Paul N

I was browsing one of my puritan author collections and thought to myself  "How could these sermon/discourse and biography collections be accessed differently?"

Potentially sermons/discourses could be indexed by:

Subject
Scripture
Time Period (1800's, 1900's, etc...)
????

Biographies might be more useful if indexed by:

Time Period
Denomination/Background
????

 

The question is:  Is anyone else interested in helping compile a sermon/discourse index by the above index criteria?  My thought is I would start the PB and then if you see an author collection I don't have access to you could add it to the PB and repost the file to the thread.

The end goal would be to compile a single resource giving linked access to most if not all sermons/biographies across Logos.  Of course you would have to own the resource to actually read what was behind the link

Has anyone begun a similar project?

 

Logos, if you're reading, how awesome would this be if it were available from the people having access to all the books???

Any other thoughts before I get the ball rolling?

MJ. Smith

Paul Newsome said:

Any other thoughts before I get the ball rolling?

I think you're on a good track but I see it as leading to a feature that requires it be a Logos project. When I do a search in Logos and let Logos present the results in Rank order, I often find that the ranking has nothing to do with me. Logos could provide me with much better rankings by allowing me to set certain preferences:

• my high ranking authors - giving some preference not only to the author himself but also to a lesser amount his students and authors who list him in their bibliography (or quote him)
• my high ranking denominational preferences
• my high ranking methodological school preferences
• my preferred canon definition

I also see this as a way to enhance sales - those resources most linked (via quotation or bibliography) to my current library (or preferred resources) are often the resources I am most likely to want to purchase.

However, until Logos sees the light [I]and implements my design,[A] I think your proposal is a solid one[Y] - one to which I would be willing to contribute on a time available basis.