Postils are by definition Bible commentaries or sermons not monographs

postil in British English
(ˈpɒstɪl)noun
1. a commentary or marginal note, as in a Bible
2. a homily or collection of homiliesverbWord forms: -tils, -tiling, -tiled or -tils, -tilling, -tilled
3. obsoleteto annotate (a biblical passage)
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Word originC15 (postille): from Old French postille from Medieval Latin postilla, perhaps from post illa (verba textus), after these words in the text, often the opening phrase of such an annotation

The three books which form a series which includes Rollefson, John. Postils for Preaching: Commentaries on the Revised Common Lectionary, Year a. Eugene, Oregon: Resource Publications, 2016. are the primary offenders being erroneously given the resource type of monograph. I own a number of Text Creation Partnership documents with the same problem but I'm uncertain what tagging I should expect on them. If you filter the library by postil and sort by type you should catch all the errors not just those in my library.

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Bradley Grainger (Logos)

As you know, resource types in Logos imply the existence of certain features, e.g., a "Bible Commentary" has Bible milestones. Resource types are not based on the abstract notion of whether such and such book should be considered a commentary, but whether it has the tagging to make it so.

You can suggest that these works be upgraded from Ebooks to Logos Editions and retagged such that they could be classified as Bible commentaries, but this is not a metadata error. The current resource type is correct.

NB.Mick

It may be off-topic in this thread, but this caught my eye:

The three books which form a series

Yes, there are three books for the years A, B, and C by Rollefson - however, only two of them made it into Logos (as eBooks, i.e. lacking any index, as Bradley pointed out, and having some serious formatting issues which might be able to be fixed by a re-run of the automated converter). The third book is missing.

Bradley Grainger (Logos)

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1372978#Comment_1372978

I see all three:

MJ. Smith

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1372976#Comment_1372976

Given the indexes available on Luther, Martin. “Easter Sunday (Second Sermon. Mark 16:1–8).” In Luther’s Church Postil: Gospels: Epiphany, Lent and Easter Sermons, edited and translated by John Nicholas Lenker, II:238–47. The Precious and Sacred Writings of Martin Luther. Minneapolis, MN: Lutherans in All Lands Co., 1906., it appears that sermon is the appropriate book type.

NB.Mick

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1372992#Comment_1372992

Aah! Thanks! I even own it - I should have searched for author rather than title in my library and the store. I now changed the title of the Year C volume.

NB.Mick

@Bradley Grainger (Logos) not sure if this is fully correct - it sure was, but now it's only about 90% correct

You can suggest that these works be upgraded from Ebooks to Logos Editions and retagged such that they could be classified as Bible commentaries, but this is not a metadata error. The current resource type is correct.

it used to be that eBooks were 100% monographs, but it seems the product team wants to split up this unwieldy catch-all type and does so also for eBooks. There are a number of types with no index tagging, and about 5% of my eBooks are not of type:monograph

This is a mix-up between type indicating technical functionality versus content (rather loudly calls for exposing the actual index in the library). Absent are the types which actually do require an index, like bible-commentary and calendar-devotional.