Using Carta

Okay, I have heard a lot of enthusiastic people about Carta and right now, I am one of the happy owners!

But, I wonder: how to use. Has anyone already found where they pop up nicely in a guide or something? If I am working on a piece of scripture. How do I use Carta to enrich my study?

And which of the 13 resources?

Thanks for sharing your knowledge!!

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Myke Harbuck

I wanted them so I could use the images in my teaching slides in Proclaim. They have great maps, charts, photos, etc! You can do a media search for a particular passage (example Genesis 30-36) and check out the results. You'll likely have some neat Carta graphics in the results.

DMB

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Michael

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Thanks! That was super helpful.

Mattillo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Neat! I'm going to try this tonight

DAL

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129888#Comment_1129888

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Neat! I'm going to try this tonight

Yes!!! I’ll do the same 👍😁👌

Sean Boisen

Also, we've annotated many entities on the Carta maps, which lets you find relevant maps that would be hard to find with string searching. Media Search examples limiting the scope to Carta Bible Atlas:

cshover8669

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129897#Comment_1129897

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Neat! I'm going to try this tonight

Yes!!! I’ll do the same 👍😁👌

[Y][*]

Wild Eagle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129908#Comment_1129908

So, what would be the rule for Carta collection?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129916#Comment_1129916

So, what would be the rule for Carta collection?

publisher:carta seems to do it

Wild Eagle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129920#Comment_1129920

publisher:carta seems to do it

Wow, that was a fast reply. Thanks

Bruce Dunning

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

What a great suggestion Denise. I've now adopted this for my standard study layout. Thank you!

cshover8669

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Denise I have set this up. Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out, I have not ever used this particular tool before and I went a little crazy adding collections to it, I see great promise. Not a new feature by any means but one I was under-utilizing.

Thanks again, Carla

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Ok, everyone is so excited. Great suggestion! But, I'm feeling real dumb, cause I can't figure how to get this to work. See my screenshot. What am I doing wrong? Can't get collection to harvest any hits???

Here's my Carta Collection;

Mark Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130070#Comment_1130070

There are no Carta references to the chapter you are showing on your screen shot. Scroll down to chapter 8:

cshover8669

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130077#Comment_1130077

There are no Carta references to the chapter you are showing on your screen shot. Scroll down to chapter 8:

Also, if that does not work, I had to to to the panel menu and click on follow, after I linked Cited by with my Bible to get it to change with the Bible passage and then if finally started showing results. I am not sure why setting the link set did not have it moving with my Bible, but it didn't. It was stuck on the first passage I had looked at for which there were no entries.

Carla

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130096#Comment_1130096

There are no Carta references to the chapter you are showing on your screen shot. Scroll down to chapter 8:

Also, if that does not work, I had to to to the panel menu and click on follow, after I linked Cited by with my Bible to get it to change with the Bible passage and then if finally started showing results. I am not sure why setting the link set did not have it moving with my Bible, but it didn't. It was stuck on the first passage I had looked at for which there were no entries.

Carla

Thank you, Mark and Carla, but I still don't get a hit[:(]

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130153#Comment_1130153

Thank you, Mark and Carla, but I still don't get a hit

What do you get if you do a search in your Carta collection for the verse you are looking at?

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130158#Comment_1130158

Thank you, Mark and Carla, but I still don't get a hit

What do you get if you do a search in your Carta collection for the verse you are looking at?

Thanks, Graham

I think I know what's wrong. Indexing, I'm in the process of indexing my library.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130165#Comment_1130165

I think I know what's wrong. Indexing, I'm in the process of indexing my library.

That would probably explain it.

Hans van den Herik

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130174#Comment_1130174

I consider buying the update with Carta, but I have a simple question. How big are the maps? Can they e.g. be viewed in full/half screen? Are details visible? Is there a possibility to zoom in/out?

Thanks for answering.

Hans

Kevin Clemens

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129987#Comment_1129987

Denise I have set this up. Thanks for the suggestion. It turns out, I have not ever used this particular tool before and I went a little crazy adding collections to it, I see great promise. Not a new feature by any means but one I was under-utilizing.

Cited by is one of the single best tools in Logos/Verbum.

Thanks, Denise, for the quick Carta set up - this works swimmingly.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130270#Comment_1130270

I consider buying the update with Carta, but I have a simple question. How big are the maps? Can they e.g. be viewed in full/half screen?

Here is one of the maps in a floated window

Is there a possibility to zoom in/out?

There isn't a zoom feature specifically, but if you change the scaling on the window itself, you can zoom in

Hans van den Herik

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130289#Comment_1130289

Thanks!

Scaling on windows works perfectly!

Hans

Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

Open a Cited By tool

Excuse my ignorance, but what is a "Cited By" tool?

Kevin Clemens

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130304#Comment_1130304

what is a "Cited By" tool?

The Cited By tool searches your library for a given reference and shows citations to that reference in secondary sources within your library. You can link the tool to follow open resources, or search for a reference.

More here

Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130308#Comment_1130308

Thanks, Kevin

Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129883#Comment_1129883

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

- The Carta Bible Atlas will follow events in your Bible, with associated maps. Click on the citation to see the map.

Onomasticon will discuss unusual locations in the text, especially in the NT. Eusebius (ancient church historian) did the research

Echos of the Past will discuss archeological and epigraphic evidence as you procede through the text

Thanks! That was super helpful.

Yes, very helpful!

David Wanat

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130320#Comment_1130320

I have a Carta/Verbum question. Is there a reason for Verbum needing a higher tier than the rest of the Logos packages? I’m planning on getting Diamond anyway so this isn’t an angry question, but I was just curious as to why it is so.

PetahChristian

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130335#Comment_1130335

I assume there wasn’t room to also include Carta in Verbum’s lower price points without taking out other resources they felt were more important for Verbum 9.

Peter Ryan

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130427#Comment_1130427

Thanks all! Every day's a school day! [Y]

JC54

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130444#Comment_1130444

Very happy with all replies! Especially thanks to Denise for her wonderful approach to Carta!

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130456#Comment_1130456

Thanks for Denise and others!

I haven't used the "Cited by" tool after some first tests long time ago. I felt it uses strange terminology with unfamiliar concepts, and needs some computing acrobatics. [:$]

That said, now I bravely tried again, and got it working with the Carta books. [8-|]

Looks like once I understand the feature, I can utilize it much more in the time being.

John Fidel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130526#Comment_1130526

You get the same results if you add a collection to a Passage Guide and then select the Carta collection once you add it. If you have a Guide as part of your layout, you can do this instead of opening the Cited By tool.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130527#Comment_1130527

You get the same results if you add a collection to a Passage Guide and then select the Carta collection once you add it. If you have a Guide as part of your layout, you can do this instead of opening the Cited By tool.

This use of the Passage Guide appeals to me. I've made Layouts for both methods; now let's see which one I use most frequently. Thanks, John.

Beloved Amodeo

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130289#Comment_1130289

There isn't a zoom feature specifically, but if you change the scaling on the window itself, you can zoom in

At least for OSMac if you hold down the CMD key and use the +/- keys one can zoom in and out. My guess is in Windows one would hold down the CTRL key to achieve the same result.

Veli Voipio

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130599#Comment_1130599

You get the same results if you add a collection to a Passage Guide and then select the Carta collection once you add it. If you have a Guide as part of your layout, you can do this instead of opening the Cited By tool.

This use of the Passage Guide appeals to me. I've made Layouts for both methods; now let's see which one I use most frequently. Thanks, John.

Same here. Thanks to all!

Hans van den Herik

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130609#Comment_1130609

Thanks for letting me know! I didn't realise that!

Hans

Dave Moser

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129872#Comment_1129872

I have Carta in Accordance, but absent special tagging in Logos, I'd:

- Create a Carta collection (or myTags)

- Open a Cited By tool, connect it to your Carta collection (or myTag). Then link the Cited By tool to your Bible (or commentary ... any Bible indexed)

Thanks for this tip! I just created an "Atlases" collection and added it to my passage guide.

Extremely helpful!

Mark

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130609#Comment_1130609

My guess is in Windows one would hold down the CTRL key to achieve the same result.

Does not seem to work for me, but thanks for the suggestion

John Fidel

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130871#Comment_1130871

My guess is in Windows one would hold down the CTRL key to achieve the same result.

Does not seem to work for me, but thanks for the suggestion

For the atlas resources, if you press the shift key when you select them from the PG or Cited By tool they should open in a floating window which is often more useful.

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130165#Comment_1130165

Hi Graham,

I, too, am unable to get any results. My system has finished indexing. I created the Carta collection (publisher:carta) which correctly added all the resources. However, neither the cited by tool nor the search you mentioned produce any hits - I've tried <Acts 7:54> and <Acts 7> and even <Acts>!

Any ideas?

Thanks

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130165#Comment_1130165

Hi Graham,

Any ideas?

Thanks

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130165#Comment_1130165

Hi Beloved and Graham,

I seem to be in the same boat as Beloved - did you ever get it working.

I am getting zero hits. My Logos has finished indexing and I have rebooted.

I made a collection based on the rule 'publisher:carta' which correctly identified the books in the collection. (See attached image).

Neither the Cited By nor the basic search suggested by Graham produces and results. I tried also <Acts 7> and even <Acts> but all give no results. (See attached)

Have I made a mistake somewhere? Thanks.

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130906#Comment_1130906

Neither the Cited By nor the basic search suggested by Graham produces and results. I tried also <Acts 7> and even <Acts> but all give no results. (See attached)

That all looks correct.

Do you have the Carta Bible Atlas downloaded to your system?

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130920#Comment_1130920

Neither the Cited By nor the basic search suggested by Graham produces and results. I tried also <Acts 7> and even <Acts> but all give no results. (See attached)

That all looks correct.

Do you have the Carta Bible Atlas downloaded to your system?

Thanks for the super-quick response. Yes I have all the Carta resources downloaded and indexed.

Any other suggestions? Thanks again,

James

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130920#Comment_1130920

Neither the Cited By nor the basic search suggested by Graham produces and results. I tried also <Acts 7> and even <Acts> but all give no results. (See attached)

That all looks correct.

Do you have the Carta Bible Atlas downloaded to your system?

Thanks for the super-quick response.

Yes I have all the Carta resources downloaded and indexed (see image)

Any other suggestions?

Thanks again,

James

Dennis Davis

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1129920#Comment_1129920

Thanks for the Search Graham. I also thought I would just try to add the Search as a shortcut and it worked! I have never tried this before so I'm not sure if its part of the new feature-set but I'm pretty happy about it. I then created a shortcut folder for "saved searches" so now I can have important or complex searches right in my shortcut folder. Its a good Friday!

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1131022#Comment_1131022

I then created a shortcut folder for "saved searches" so now I can have important or complex searches right in my shortcut folder

Excellent - sounds good.

You can also save searches in Favorites if that option would be of interest to you.

James Hudson

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1130920#Comment_1130920

Hmm,

Now I am confused...

It works fine on my Surface Pro, but my laptop is still showing 0 results for the same search!

Any ideas why that might be?

Graham Criddle

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1131068#Comment_1131068

It works fine on my Surface Pro, but my laptop is still showing 0 results for the same search!

It could be an index issue,

You could try the rebuild index command. It could take some time!