Look, I really appreciate the power Logos puts at my fingertips especially in some of the newest tools. But without giving me a way to identify the state of the tagging in a document, Logos has provided me with the tools to dig myself into a deeper hole of incomplete/inaccurate information. I recognize that computerized processing of natural language is difficult despite there being a number of well-known algorithms with accuracy > 90%. So I know to always verify results by coming at them from another direction. So while Long, Burke O. 1 Kings: With an Introduction to Historical Literature. Vol. 9. The Forms of the Old Testament Literature. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 1984. isn't actually a book I'd be apt to study the sources in, it does provide a good example. After all it is a standard volume in a standard commentary set.
So I look for references to 1 Maccabees via the concordance and via the search (columns two and three) - they both show no entries so I've verified my work, right? Well, no, see column 4. Because the tagging is incomplete my results are garbage. But as users we have no way to verify that a volume's tagging is incomplete except to run into an instance of a missing link and checking from there.
The situation is far worse when looking at patristic or medieval references, where the presence or absence of a reference existing depends upon the Logos catalogue; where the same manuscript may appear under multiple datatypes rendering the identification of search arguments an exercise resembling reading a crystal ball.
What I need for scholarly work is not Logos meeting unrealistic expectations of completeness and accuracy. What I need is the ability to know the level of tagging present to allow me to provide manual tagging that (a) fills in incomplete Logos coding (b) allows me to correct Logos coding (c) permits me to complete coding even where the resources are not in Logos via a standard scheme that can convert easily to live links (d) the ability to run Logos against my modified text. Note I would do this level of work only on resources I was actually trying to complete an academically acceptable level of research on
