Dear Logos, why is "Baker Illustrated Guide..." a Monograph and not a Dictionary?

Stephen McCracken · April 2014

I purchased the Baker illustrated Guide to Everyday Life and it was downloaded yesterday - https://www.logos.com/product/31499/baker-illustrated-guide-to-everyday-life-in-bible-times

These are the subjects covered in the guide:

CONTENTS

Anoint
Armor-Bearer
Arrow (to shoot)
Authority (to hold or to exercise)
Bake Bread
Belt (to wear or to tuck)
Birth
Blind
Borrow/Lend
Bow Down (to kneel)
Bread (to eat)
Bridegroom
Bury the Dead
Cast Metal
Circumcise
Clap Hands
Clean/Unclean
Concubine
Cross the Jordan River
Crown (to wear)
Crucify
Dance
Destroy (Hebrew, hrm)
Divination (to practice)
Divorce
Dream (to have or to interpret)
Drunk (to become)
Dry (to be or to experience drought)
Eat
Engrave
Exile
Famine
Fast
Firstborn Son
Fish
Flog (whip, scourge)
Fly
Foot (to place on)
Fortify
Foundation (to lay)
Glean
Greet
Grind
Hand (to raise or stretch out)
Harvest (reap)
Hunt
Inherit
Kiss
Lamp (to light a)
Lay On Hands
Lots (to cast)
Measure
Melt
Milk (to drink)
Mountain (to move)
Mourn (to grieve)
Naked
Name (to give a)
Orphan (fatherless)
Pharisee
Plant/Sow
Pledged to Be Married (betrothed/engaged)
Plow
Plunder
Potter (pottery manufacture)
Prostitute
Quarry (to hew)
Ride
Run
Sabbath (to observe)
Sacred Stone (to set up or to destroy)
Sadducee (chief priest)
Sandals (to remove)
Scribe (secretary)
Shave
Shear
Shipwreck
Siege (besiege)
Sift (with a sieve)
Sit
Slave (to become or to be freed)
Sleep
Sling (a projectile)
Smelt (to refine metal)
Stiff-Necked
Stoning (as a form of execution)
Stranger (alien)
Tax Collector
Tear a Garment
Tent Peg/Stake (to drive)
Thresh
Trap/Snare
Vineyard (to establish)
Wash Clothes
Water (to acquire or to draw)
Weave
Weigh
Widow
Winnow
Yoke (to wear a)

It is my (limited) understanding that because this is a monograph and not a dictionary, none of the contents above appear in the Topic search where the other dictionary and encyclopaedia articles appear.

If this is the reason (even after prioritisation), then I suggest it has been wrongly identified as a monograph. Though this not called a Dictionary or an Encyclopaedia, its needs to operate like one within logos. its a great reference resource and this would enable me to use it as it is meant to be used.

Hope you can help...

Ben Dyer · April 2014

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Mark Barnes · March 2016

It's nearly two years since this question was asked, and still no answer. Time for a bump, I think!

Kyle G. Anderson · April 2016

I changed the resource type for this book to encyclopedia this morning. That change will be noticeable soon.

By itself this won't help you much. I also went ahead and added headwords to the resource which will allow you to navigate the resource by topic and make this show up as a target when using the right click function.

That update will be available on Monday.

Adam Borries (Logos) · February 2017

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/818795#Comment_818795

Kyle G. Anderson said:
...added headwords to the resource which will allow you to navigate the resource by topic and make this show up as a target when using the right click function.

To clarify: the change above makes it easier to navigate through topics in the resource, but it does not make it appear in Topic Guide or Factbook. Doing so would require much more extensive tagging. All new encyclopedias that we produce now are tagged properly for Factbook, but this wasn't always the case with older resources. As much as we would like to go back and update all encyclopedias to support Factbook integration, its not financially feasible.

Try this workaround to find related articles in non-topically-tagged resources:

Open Topic Guide and enter topic.
At bottom of the "Topic" section, click "Search for..."
In the Search panel, change "Everything" to "All Resources" (or limit it further with "type:encyclopedia").
Change "All Text" to "Heading Text."

Dear Logos, why is "Baker Illustrated Guide..." a Monograph and not a Dictionary?

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