Minimal Crossgrade vs Core Data Sets

The minimal crossgrade claims to "equip you to use" the core data sets. In what ways do the added resources help me? I have L4 Platinum KF with a bunch of additions (WBC, ISBE, IVP Black Dictionaries, etc) and the new resources in the crossgrade hardly look like they are useful.

What added functionality do I get from the crossgrade materials over the data sets? (I'm looking at functionality - not content.)

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David Bailey

In what ways do the added resources help me?

Only you can determine that.

What added functionality do I get from the crossgrade materials over the data sets? (I'm looking at functionality - not content.)

Take a look at the L5 Features page. See also the L5 FAQ.

Edit: from another post by Mark Barnes:

You can get more detail here:

Mark Smith

Dave with CD only you'd miss out on the Bible Sense lexicon and the Clause Search. Those are worth the extra cost alone. In addition you get the Lexham Bibles that operate with the Clause Search. There are some Septuagint resources as well as a bunch of miscellaneous stuff. The first two I mentioned are the big ones.

Dave Moser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/426002#Comment_426002

Mark, thanks for your helpful reply.

with CD only you'd miss out on the Bible Sense lexicon

The description of the Bible Sense lexicon says, "Look up words in English, Greek, Hebrew, and Aramaic... Make word connections, research meanings and word families, and find passages that express unique meanings of original language words. With Bible Sense Lexicon, you’ll explore semantic domains in both the Old and New Testaments."

How is that different than the Bible Word Study?

and the Clause Search... In addition you get the Lexham Bibles that operate with the Clause Search

Three items:

Isn't the clause search part of the L5 engine?
The Core Dataset gives you the "Referent Data." I thought this was the data that drives the clause search... not the other items in the crossgrade.
Your post seems to indicate that the clause search is somehow dependent on the resources in the minimal crossgrade and explicitly references the Lexham Bibles. Does this mean the clause search only operates with Lexham Bibles?

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/426055#Comment_426055

How is that different than the Bible Word Study?

A word can be used in different ways. Previously Logos had no way to differentiate in what sense a word was being used. It has tagged all the RI Bibles with that sort of information. A Bible Word Study would show you all the uses of a word and let you discover that there were different ways in which a word might be used (senses), but could not help you discover the places these senses might be found (a lexicon might have some, but not all of these). Right now the tool is still being developed. It will not take you to the places for each sense of a word, but soon we'll be able to see those. In fact the BWS tool now includes a section on senses, and senses info appears in the Exegetical Guide.

The RI Bibles have an extra line in the bottom of the screen display to show senses. Again, when this tool is fully developed I think it will enrich our study of the use of words.

Isn't the clause search part of the L5 engine?
The Core Dataset gives you the "Referent Data." I thought this was the data that drives the clause search... not the other items in the crossgrade.
Your post seems to indicate that the clause search is somehow dependent on the resources in the minimal crossgrade and explicitly references the Lexham Bibles. Does this mean the clause search only operates with Lexham Bibles?

Yes and no. Not all users will see Clause search just as all users do not see Morphological Search or Syntactical Search based on their package level. Even if you could see it, it definitely wouldn't work without the two resources designed to work with it that come in the MC.

Referent data deals with who is being referred to in a passage. So in a place where no names appear, referent data supplies the answer to the question, "Who is this person who is speaking or being spoken about?" It appears in the Information Panel.

Here's an example from Revelation 1:4 (which would not be hard to figure out on your own):