What is the process of converting books into Logos format?

I ask because I was interested in getting involved if there could be a type of 'community' help.

Is the process similar to scanning real pages into images, then using a word recognition and fixing the mistakes? Is it limited to hand-typing all resources? A process of just taking digital copies and formatting them, like a Personal Book?

Is there an automatic indexing process for a finished conversion that adds the words from the work and indexes them to the catalog of Logos? Similar to when you add a Personal Book to your library and it indexes immediately. Then you can search and pull results from that source.

In all of that, is there a way to open the conversion to the community in some way? I'd be happy to spend around 7 hours a week (hour a night) or so converting the books if it fell within a helpful and simplistic method. That may not seem like much, but with the drive and enthusiasm behind the Personal Books, I can't help but see others helping and driving the pace of some of the pre-pubs being published. Maybe there could be a deal in compensation on the price for those who helped.

I guess one immediate concern would be having publications in the hands of users without pay; but if it were broken into pages/fragments, like samples are given, then that could be avoided. Or maybe leave a finishing process (like indexing, coding, etc) to be finished by Logos so all work has to be sent back through for processing? I'm sure there are other positives/negatives, just trying to jump-start the topic!

I was just curious if anything like that existed. I'm very thankful to Logos and dedicated to the cause and their existence.

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Deacon Steve

See if this helps with any of your questions.

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Mark Barnes

In all of that, is there a way to open the conversion to the community in some way?

Logos has never crowd-sourced book production. It's been suggested a view times. The tagging of most biblical-studies books requires significant training because the number of possible links is very high (it's not just Scripture, but DSS, Church Fathers, TDNT, Pseudepigrapha, and so on and so on). There's there's Greek and Hebrew characters, other 'hidden' tagging to support particular features (fields and languages, for example). The result of that is that there are very few people who'd be willing to tag to that standard (certainly without reward).

The second issue is that all of that complexity means that you need complex custom-built tools to create Logos books. Those tools are clearly good enough for in-house production, but apparently not yet good enough for more general use. Then you'd need additional architecture to support splitting works into multiple projects, submitting work, checking work, and so on.

So all in all, it would require a very high investment from Logos, with no guarantee of return. With the existing model apparently working well, I think they're reluctant to take the risk.

Anthony

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/599496#Comment_599496

In all of that, is there a way to open the conversion to the community in some way?

So all in all, it would require a very high investment from Logos, with no guarantee of return. With the existing model apparently working well, I think they're reluctant to take the risk.

Of course, not the answer HOPED for, but definitely sound and reasonable response. [8-|]