Library Tags - My Tags, Community Tags what is it used for.?
Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ? Or what is it used for.
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I use them to tie related resources together e.g. Bible Study Guides is my most common addition. Because Community Tags rarely meet my needs, I tend to ignore them. For an average evangelical user I suspect they are more useful.
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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I am new to logos. When I left or right click or double click on My Tags, nothing happens. How do you use My Tags?
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They are used primarily as selection attributes in the Library panel or in a Search
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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As an example, I could assign in "My Tag", a Tag to ESV, RSV, NIV as my most important Texts in my library, but where is the option to assign a tag? Is it part of Search?
I seem to be missing something.
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Tags are added to a resource in the information panel which can be accessed in the library or from the panel menu of the resource. See https://wiki.logos.com/Tagging
Orthodox Bishop Alfeyev: "To be a theologian means to have experience of a personal encounter with God through prayer and worship."; Orthodox proverb: "We know where the Church is, we do not know where it is not."
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Thank you for that. I did not know about wiki.logos.
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Mark Rolfe said:
a Tag to ESV, RSV, NIV as my most important Texts in my library,
Using prioritization may accomplish this in your search results - https://wiki.logos.com/Prioritizing or https://support.logos.com/hc/en-us/articles/360019683652-Prioritize-Resources
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Prioritization does not affect the ordering of results in searches.
It does in Guides, the Context menu and in other places
Mark - what are you trying to achieve?
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I am creating subsets for some of the standard logos groups. I have Academic Prof and I am using tags to reduce the number of items in some of these.
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What do you mean by “standard Logos groups” and how are you trying to reduce the number of items in them?
Sorry - but I don’t quite understand what you wrote and I’m trying to see if there is any advice we can provide that would help.
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By standard groups I mean those in "Type". I suppose I am trying to set up a parallel category in My-Tags which has what I want in various groups. But one problem I've found with a "Series" is that all individual books are treated separately, so if I have a Tag called BCom (bible commentaries) and I bring in a series, then I could have 50 or more titles in BCom and defeat my purpose. So for a Series I will use the Logos "Series Filter". I am looking to set up away I becoming aware of what is in the library.
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Hi Mark
Sorry - but I'm still not understanding what you are trying to achieve so I'm afraid I can't give any advice
Graham
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Mark Rolfe said:
Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ? Or what is it used for.
Just adding to MJ and Graham. I have all my resources tagged (5k or so). I never use collections (maybe once). And I don't query by any of Logos's various categories ... subject, type, series, etc. It's just a whole lot easier tagging, even if some front-end time.
As an example, I type in Comm40 and quickly have all my commentaries on Mathew. Done. I also re-title with prefixes, so they'll sort ... like in a 'Bible'. And if I type '40', I have everything on Matthew, no matter the type.
I also take advantage of Logos filtering as you type. General precedes specific. Like JewishTargums or JewishTalmud or JewishLaws. Typing jewish brings them all up, then more specific.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Mark Rolfe said:
Does anyone use My Tags to reorganize their library resource list ?
not re-organize but organize beyond what FL gives us in the fields in the library. Some examples:
- I tag all commentaries and also monographs that deal with a specific bible book with its specific bible book number, such as #01 - Gen for Genesis and so forth, #61 - Mt for Matthew ... This helps me to see series in order (FL uses a similar numbering scheme in their filenames and there are "canonical" collection rules in the forum and the wiki. While I still have those collections, someday I may delete all of them since my tag has this information and I can save on startup time). It allows very easily to see all commentaries on a biblical book, construct searches limited to those books, and gives structure to the many type:bible-commentary resources - and some more who are different types. Beyond the subject field it allows me to include books which have a "weird" subject entry, and those who lack a subject like all edition:eBook monographs, even if they are commentaries (the EGGNT currently is a case in point). Yes I give ten such tags to a commentary that covers the ten minor prophets - and I'm glad to find all on e.g Nahum even if the series all 'slice and dice' the smaller books differently.
- I tag all fiction books with a tag "fiction". This is something many users do, at least for edition:eBook (former Vyrso) books, so you'll see a community tag with this entry for many fiction books such as novels. I sometimes differ and tag "biography", sometimes I prefer a tag like "classics" or use both.
Thus it helps to run a search like tag:fiction -mytag:fiction to see potential candidates for mytag:fiction that I may have missed or tagged otherwise deliberately. - I tag all lectionary resources with their index tag (i.e. YMD if it is present, RCL, CathLC etx) - this is necessary because Logos does not (yet) expose the index information and other "traits" in library fields. I think I need this info.
- Same goes as "RI" for all bibles which have Reverse Interlinears and an additional tag for those of them that do (and don't) work in the interlinear text comparison tool.
- Those two are just samples of what I often look for. If I was starting with Logos now and with a smallish library, I'd tag all index information except page for all my books.
- Sometimes I tag the "canonical" author names when Logos uses different ones supplied by their publishers - thus, being "sloppy" instead of precise and filtering for the author's name only instead of the content of the author field, I can catch all of their works (if one knows about the different names, one can OR them or search for a list)
- I use some other tags that help me, like theological traditions Lutheran, Catholic, Reformed (incomplete for sure!)
- I tag all resources with a tag "mystuff" (or equivalent for temporary licenses). Thus I can easily see untagged resources as new and in need of tagging.
Investing a few seconds every now and then into a tag (mostly directly upon purchase) allows being relaxed the year long, getting the results I need and not becoming too frustrated with incomplete or inconsistent metadata in the library.
Have joy in the Lord!
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Thanks for all these replies and I'll experiment along these lines.
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Also use MyTags for resource information beyond Library fields
- ?Plagiarism? (with MyTag for plagiarism source: ?D.A.Carson?, ?F.F.Bruce?)
- Apostolic Fathers (Subject metadata is incomplete)
- Application (includes a number of eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
- BibleApparatus (subset of Apparatus resources)
- BibleGrid (subset of Bibles for searching with results in Grid)
- Biography (Subject metadata is incomplete plus includes some eBooks)
- Commentary grouping when written
- Commentary1Antiquity
- Commentary2Medieval
- Commentary3Reformation
- Commentary4Awakenings
- Commentary5Modern
- Commentary6Contemporary
- Commentary7Recent
- Commentary grouping by type, see thread => Collection rules for sorting commentaries (updated for Logos 8 Base Packages)
- Commentary-Background
- Commentary-Devotional
- Commentary-Expository
- Commentary-Intermediate
- Commentary-Jewish
- Commentary-Pastoral
- Commentary-Technical
- Commentary-Textual
- Counsel (includes some eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
- deprecated (old Biblia Hebraica Stuttgartensia resources that should not be used anymore)
- Discourse (Subject metadata is incomplete for Discourse insights/discussions)
- Family (includes some eBooks that do not have Library metadata)
- fr (Friberg Greek Morphology: an Analytical Greek New Testament)
- he (Logos Hebrew Morphology)
- HebrewGrid (subset of Hebrew Bibles for searching with Grid results)
- Headword Indexing (for various languages)
- HW:English
- HW:German
- HW:Greek
- HW:Hebrew
- HW:Latin
- HW:Spanish
- Interlinear (Interlinear menu appears in resource)
- InterlinearNT (Interlinear only in New Testament)
- InterlinearTextComparison (Bibles enabled by Faithlife for Text Comparison Interlinear using Online connection)
- js (Swanson Greek Morphology - 2 NT Resources)
- lbs (Logos Greek Morphology - hundreds of Resources)
- lemma (English Discourse NT has lemma tagging while lacking morphology tagging)
- lls (GRAMCORD Greek Morphology - 4 NT Resources)
- OldTestamentPseudigrapha (Subject metadata is inconsistent)
- Survey (subject metadata does not identify General survey resources)
- Top2 (Custom Commentary Series, see thread => Creating a New Series of Commentaries)
- Topical (Subject metadata unhelpful for Topical Dictionaries & Encyclopedias)
Keep Smiling [:)]
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I spent a significant amount of time tagging my books once I stumbled on a document by Bruce Dunning. Here is link to the most recent thread which has a link to the updated document showing his tagging system. I took from that what I wanted and made my own.
http://community.logos.com/forums/p/194226/1120286.aspx#1120286
I tag books once they are added to the library. Just takes a couple of minutes. Very useful to filter the library looking for a set of books on a topic or book of the Bible.
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