Okay, I feel like I'm stuck in 5th grade vocabulary in a rural school. Jewish, Catholic, Orthodox terminology still glaringly underrepresented. I know words are being added by resources rather than individual words but until the Jewish Encyclopedia, the Catholic Encyclopedia, and (wishful thinking) Wikipedia are added, I'm going to continue to feel hog-tied (staying with the rural theme).
I suggest:
- Give us visibility of the LCV and topics maintained by Logos/Verbum. This will give us a chance to browse and guess better what term you've used and where the gaps are.
- Permit users to submit lists of terms they think ought to be on the lists - then concentrate your efforts on adding the words from resources containing those words.
- Make visible progress adding terms from the traditions currently underrepresented at least 3 times a year i.e. give us hope.
Another possibility: I realize that in many ways the topics section was a failed exercise. However, it could serve to let users add synonyms so that their "native terminology" is recognized. It could also serve as a way to let users add terms not in the LCV both as suggestions and as a link to at least one resource on the topic - preferable in Logos. Thus Logos could build a "super dictionary" covering Bible - Pseudepigrapha - Talmud ...
Note: example from Jewish Encyclopedia
But with links to (below) or to a built-in Search:
