Theology/Denomination Tags

I've improved the list of Theology/Denomination tags, vastly expanding the number of Baptists covered:

1581.Logos Theology Tags.doc

I'll finish up later.

I'm hoping that "later" will soon be upon us...  [;)]

To pick up all the resources for Seventh-day Adventist use:

Author:(“Anderson, Bruce”, “Dederen, Raoul”, “Fayard, Carlos”, “Gulley, Norman R.”, “Harding IV, George T.”, “Hernandez, Barbara Couden”, “Horn, Siegfried H.”, “Knight, George R.”, “LaRondelle, Hans K.”, “Neufeld, Don F.”, “Nichol, Francis D.”, “Rice, Richard”, “Smith, Uriah”, "White, Ellen","Gugliotto,Lee") OR Publisher:(“Andrews University Press”, “Review and Herald”, “Seventh-day Adventist")OR (Subject:"ellen white writings")OR(mytag:"sdaencyc","sdaatlas")

Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia  and Seventh-day Adventist Atlas were not being recognized thus the reason for "mytag"

This is what is listed in the document. If someone could merge theses it would be greatly appreciated.

Author:(“Anderson, Bruce”, “Andrews University”, “Brand, Leonard”, “Davidson, Richard M.”, “Dederen, Raoul”, “Doukhan, Jacques B.”, “Fayard, Carlos”, “Gane, Roy”, “Gugliotto, Lee J.”, “Gulley, Norman R.”, “Harding IV, George T.”, “Hasel, Gerhard”, “Hernandez, Barbara Couden”, “Horn, Siegfried H.”, “Knight, George R.”, “LaRondelle, Hans K.”, “Miller, Nicholas M.”, “Neufeld, Don F.”, “Nichol, Francis D.”, “Rasell, Marc”, “Rice, Richard”, “Richards, W. Larry”, “Smith, Uriah”, “Stefanovic, Ranko”, “Swanson, H. Peter”, “White, Ellen G.”) OR Publisher:(“Andrews University Press”, “Review and Herald”, “Seventh Day Adventist”)

Thanks, Lynden.  I wasn't 100 per cent certain what you wanted, but the Logos Theology Tags document now says:

Seventh Day Adventist

Author:(“Anderson, Bruce”, “Andrews University”, “Brand, Leonard”, “Davidson, Richard M.”, “Dederen, Raoul”, “Doukhan, Jacques B.”, “Fayard, Carlos”, “Gane, Roy”, “Gugliotto, Lee J.”, “Gulley, Norman R.”, “Harding IV, George T.”, “Hasel, Gerhard”, “Hernandez, Barbara Couden”, “Horn, Siegfried H.”, “Knight, George R.”, “LaRondelle, Hans K.”, “Miller, Nicholas M.”, “Neufeld, Don F.”, “Nichol, Francis D.”, “Rasell, Marc”, “Rice, Richard”, “Richards, W. Larry”, “Smith, Uriah”, “Stefanovic, Ranko”, “Swanson, H. Peter”, “White, Ellen G.”) OR Publisher:(“Andrews University Press”, “Review and Herald”, “Seventh-day Adventist”)

Additional Suggestion

OR Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”)

NB: The MyTag part will only work if these tags have already been added by the user to the SDA Encyclopedia and Atlas respectively.

I hope this is the merging you wanted.  I don't think you wanted me to exclude the extra names, just include all the ones you had listed.  This should work for you:

Author:(“Anderson, Bruce”, “Andrews University”, “Brand, Leonard”, “Davidson, Richard M.”, “Dederen, Raoul”, “Doukhan, Jacques B.”, “Fayard, Carlos”, “Gane, Roy”, “Gugliotto, Lee J.”, “Gulley, Norman R.”, “Harding IV, George T.”, “Hasel, Gerhard”, “Hernandez, Barbara Couden”, “Horn, Siegfried H.”, “Knight, George R.”, “LaRondelle, Hans K.”, “Miller, Nicholas M.”, “Neufeld, Don F.”, “Nichol, Francis D.”, “Rasell, Marc”, “Rice, Richard”, “Richards, W. Larry”, “Smith, Uriah”, “Stefanovic, Ranko”, “Swanson, H. Peter”, “White, Ellen G.”) OR Publisher:(“Andrews University Press”, “Review and Herald”, “Seventh-day Adventist”) OR Subject:(“ellen white writings”) OR MyTag:(“sdaencyc”, “sdaatlas”)

I don't have the SDA Encyclopedia or Atlas in http://www.logos.com/product/9202/seventh-day-adventist-bible-commentary-expanded-edition, and the webpage doesn't list Author or Publisher information for these.  If anyone could list Authors or Publishers, as shown in the Library, then I will try to use these instead of the mytag approach.  Similarly for the writings covered by Subject:(“ellen white writings”).

Andrew,

I don't know if you've already put together something like this, but if not, this might help. It's an Excel workbook that contains all the data in the rules that you have posted on this thread. I have not incorporporated any of the other changes suggested so that you can curate it as you choose. All the names are in easy to edit list and the rules are built automatically. It does contain a small VBA function for concatenating the lists of names so you will see the macro warning when opening.

Sorry for appearing to ignore this, Randy.  It's really helpful, but I knew I wanted to be heading towards putting all of the authors on a single tab, so I've been waiting until this was complete before responding.  If you were able to write a Macro to automatically populate the Logos Rules tab on the zipped spreadsheet, then I would greatly appreciate it.  It will be far easier to maintain a spreadsheet than a Word Document.

3617.Denominations and Theology.zip

It will need a rule to be generated for each category and each subcategory where the subcategory is different from the category, plus for each theology represented by a column.  Ideally it will look in the Authors, Publishers and Sets tabs, and will generate its own list of categories, subcategories and theologies, so that new ones can be added as necessary without needing to change the macro.  I don't think this should be too hard for those who regularly write macros, though I realise it might need more explanation.  Are you up for the challenge?

In case Randy doesn't see this (or has better things to do), I'd welcome a macro from anyone that is able to populate the Logos rules tab, like Randy's macro did, but based on the paragraph above.  Can anyone help here?

Andrew et al... since collections can now be shared as documents (seems to be at least) would it not be ideal that a faithlife group be created to share these as collections?

Sounds like a great idea.

Ok then... here it is as a test: https://faithlife.com/logos-library-theology-denomination-tags

I have shared a few of my created collections according to the collection rules in this thread as a test. Join the group to see and share yours. Maybe it's best if there is a master copy that gets updated. 

Thanks, Sleiman.  I hadn't looked at the possibility of sharing the collections directly within Logos before.  This is definitely the easiest way for them to be shared.

I'm not sure how we deal with quality control, etc. though, so to try to keep it consistent, I'm happy to manage collections based on the data in the spreadsheet above.  Clearly, others can still copy their own collections there, but it might get a bit messy if it's not limited to just Denominations and Theologies.  Perhaps there could be other groups for other types of collections.

To make it as easy as possible to use the rules generated previously, I have copied most of them to the group you created at: https://faithlife.com/logos-library-theology-denomination-tags/documents

The ones I have created all start with the word Denomination, Theology, or Denom. Stream.  I hope this is self-explanatory.  Note that you do not need to take personal copies of all of them, but you can choose the ones you want.  After taking a copy, you can edit them as you see fit within Logos, and you can delete them from your own copy of Logos if you decide you no longer need them.

Please let me know what you think.