Q: Factbook: Re: Works & their authors
Until quite recently, I held a belief, which now seems mistaken, about the Factbook: Every Faithlife-sold resource with an article in the Factbook with an author listed in that article is tied to an article in the Factbook about that author.
My counter evidence is that there are a lot more resources by Joseph Ratzinger / Pope Benedict XVI in my library and in Factbook than are listed in any of his Factbook articles.
As one specific example, I can't find his The Spirit of the Liturgy in a Works section anywhere, even though its Factbook article correctly indicates its author as Joseph Ratzinger. (No, liturgical scholars, it was not misattributed by the Factbook to Romano Guardini.)
Can anyone:
1. Confirm that my counter-evidence is flawed, perhaps due to a bug of some kind (I was using the Factbook on mobile) preventing resources from before his election to the pontificate from showing up
2. Verify and explain my new finding
3. Fix the apparent non-attribution of dozens of volumes to the Pope Emeritus
4. Clear up my confusion in some other useful way
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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That specific work is also missing on my desktop version of Factbook, so it does not seem like your evidence is flawed.
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SineNomine said:
Until quite recently, I held a belief, which now seems mistaken, about the Factbook: Every Faithlife-sold resource with an article in the Factbook with an author listed in that article is tied to an article in the Factbook about that author.
I had assumed that was the aim; I never believed that was the current state. I have assumed that the data present is that which is easiest to obtain. That to obtain the remainder, we need to report the errors to FL to both help FL obtain the data and to prioritize based on what users are using.
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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MJ. Smith said:
That to obtain the remainder, we need to report the errors to FL to both help FL obtain the data and to prioritize based on what users are using.
In which case, Faithlife, please consider this a report that a few dozen works in your catalogue that were written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to his election as pope are not showing up in his Factbook entry and that data BUG is well worth fixing.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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I'll pass this report along to the folks who manage the author data.
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Sean Boisen said:
I'll pass this report along to the folks who manage the author data.
Thanks, Sean!
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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SineNomine said:
ase consider this a report that a few dozen works in your catalogue that were written by Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI prior to his election as pope are not showing up in his Factbook entry
I didn't go through all his works, but i see quite a few (including The Spirit of the Liturgy) on his Factbook page (once i hit More a few times). I'm not sure if you're seeing something different?
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Sean Boisen said:
I'm not sure if you're seeing something different?
I am.
On mobile (Android), I am not seeing The Spirit of the Liturgy, but I do see Behold the Pierced One, which was missing when I posted this thread. I don't see Theological Highlights of Vatican II, which I did see at that time. I do see The Theology of History in St. Bonaventure, but the volumes below it are Europe Today and Tomorrow and Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two, and the volumes before it are Sacramentum Caritatis and Principles of Christian Morality.
On desktop, I see what your screenshot shows, except that for me no volumes are locked.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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SineNomine said:Sean Boisen said:
I'm not sure if you're seeing something different?
I am.
On mobile (Android), I am not seeing The Spirit of the Liturgy, but I do see Behold the Pierced One, which was missing when I posted this thread. I don't see Theological Highlights of Vatican II, which I did see at that time. I do see The Theology of History in St. Bonaventure, but the volumes below it are Europe Today and Tomorrow and Jesus of Nazareth: Part Two, and the volumes before it are Sacramentum Caritatis and Principles of Christian Morality.
On desktop, I see what your screenshot shows, except that for me no volumes are locked.
Ah, i missed that this was on mobile.
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Sean Boisen said:
Ah, i missed that this was on mobile.
When I posted originally, I thought the problem was with the Factbook; now it seems to be a problem with the Factbook on mobile... that's why this thread was created in the Desktop forum, which turns out to have been a mistake.
“The trouble is that everyone talks about reforming others and no one thinks about reforming himself.” St. Peter of Alcántara
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