KYLE (and a Book of Common Prayer Expert): missing tagging

Okay, I was innocently checking how difficult it would be to make a resource similar to this for the Book of Common Prayer: A gift (How to use Lectionary and Missal) with a request for honest feedback - pretty please with sugar and cream (and wild strawberries) My motivation was simple - to prove that the bugs I had found that stymied that project was not isolated to Catholic resources.

However, what I found was missing & inconsistent tagging in the Book of Common Prayer which should be tagged in a manner similar to the Missal and Lectionary as it serves the same purpose. I have identified three problems but someone very familiar with the Services of the Book of Common Prayer should really work through it to find all the problem ... Otherwise Kyle will probably have to go through several cycles before it is truly right.

In the Collects, the link to the next element (Preface of Advent etc.) is not a link
In the Prefaces, the Prefaces lack the liturgical dates as given in the Collects
The Revised Common Lectionary and the Daily Office Lectionary completely lack liturgical dates.

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Kyle G. Anderson

In the Collects, the link to the next element (Preface of Advent etc.) is not a link

This seems reasonable to add.

In the Prefaces, the Prefaces lack the liturgical dates as given in the Collects

This is doable but I'm struggling to see the benefit of putting a generic milestone for Easter at that location. What would adding milestones at that location help you accomplish that isn't currently happening?

The Revised Common Lectionary and the Daily Office Lectionary completely lack liturgical dates.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding something both the RCL and the Daily Office Lectionary (1978) feature liturgical dates. The Daily Office Lectionary (1928) does not. IIRC this is because the data type was based upon the 1978 lectionary and there was significant enough differences that we couldn't use it for the 1928 Daily Office.

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1097849#Comment_1097849

My test for how the tagging should work is tracing the steps needed to pull together the full text of a service.

In the Prefaces, the Prefaces lack the liturgical dates as given in the Collects

This is doable but I'm struggling to see the benefit of putting a generic milestone for Easter at that location. What would adding milestones at that location help you accomplish that isn't currently happening?

The Preface is the next text after the Collect so one needs to be able to navigate to it based upon the information available to you at your current location. The Prefaces as a general rule apply to the entire season - Sundays and Weekdays - rather than to specific days like the Collects. As the Proper Prefaces are two expansions down in the Table of Contents, it requires extreme familiarity with the Book of Common Prayer to find them without the link. Put another way, in the electronic world one can't use ribbons and fingers to mark your way through a service ... it has to be links and tagging.-- the latter in support of searching for the piece of the service when it is not linked.

Unless I'm completely misunderstanding something both the RCL and the Daily Office Lectionary (1978) feature liturgical dates. The Daily Office Lectionary (1928) does not. IIRC this is because the data type was based upon the 1978 lectionary and there was significant enough differences that we couldn't use it for the 1928 Daily Office.

Yes, you are completely misunderstanding - rare for you but understandable in this situation - I am referring to the lectionary section of the Book of Common Prayer. Again, trying to pull together the full text.