Announcement: Resource Type Change--Dictionary, Encyclopedia, Lexicon

Wow, thanks Louis!  

We expect to complete the changes this morning. If you're using Logos "online", you should see the results immediately.

Thanks!  We now have functional Encyclopedia of Christianity resources!  Their types have been fixed:

And they now show up in the look-ups:

Maybe another restart would fix it?

Yes, I believe that fixed it. But the resource called Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Quotations is still of type Monograph under the category Monograph.

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I also had to do a second restart to get thing straightened out.  Both Encyclopedias and Dictionaries were mislabeled until I did the restart.

This is good news. It will help with forming collections.

I have one of the new categories so far: Encyclopedia. Missing Lexicon. Will wait.

Works well for me over here, I appear to have got all the new categorizations which is great. Looks good over here!

There always end up being some borderline cases in any classification.

All these changes occurred without any updates or resource updates?

Logos 4 is database driven, so metadata can be stored separate to the content (i.e. resource files) and updates to metadata pushed out seamlessly.

Super! Thanks, Logos!

Today, Logos will be introducing two new resource types in Logos 4 to better handle different kinds of "dictionary"-like resources.

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We expect to complete the changes this morning. If you're using Logos "online", you should see the results immediately.

Update appears to already be in Mac SR version.

Dictionary
Modern language dictionary. These resources typically have short definitions for the individual headwords, and the headwords cover a large percentage of the unique words in the language.
Examples: Merriam-Webster's, Collins Concise Dictionary

Lexicon
Ancient language dictionary. These resources may have short definitions or long sections on the etymology or usage of each word. The headwords are in an ancient language and typically cover a large percentage of the unique words in that language.
Examples: BDAG, HALOT
(Note also: Subject fields for lexicons have been reviewed to make sure they specify the language(s) covered and the language the resource is in. E.g. "Hebrew language--Dictionaries--English".)

Encyclopedia
Encyclopedic dictionary. These resources typically have long articles, and may only have a few hundred or thousand headwords. There is often a high degree of overlap with Bible Knowledgebase/Logos Controlled Vocabulary concepts (though not always, e.g., Dictionary of Christianity in America).
Examples: Harper's Bible Dictionary, Anchor Bible Dictionary, Dictionary of Christianity in America

For the sake of clarity and completeness, maybe you could also provide your/Logos' definition of 'Thesaurus'? It seems to be a similar category that should also be taken into account when classifying.

Also some stufff I noted while making my collections last week (a few others seem to have disappeared since then, so you're obviously working on it):

• Building your New Testament Greek Vocabulary is listed as a lexicon, but Building Your Biblical Hebrew Vocabulary as a monograph.
• Introduction to Aramaic is listed as a grammar, Introduction to Ecclesiastical Latin as a Monograph.
• One of Nunn's Greek books is listed as a grammar, two as monographs, and there were plenty of other grammatical works among the monographs as well. Now, I haven't looked at all (or any, really…) of these books in detail, so I can't say exactly what they are, but if they don't qualify as grammars, it would be helpful to have another category with 'gramma-something' in the title. I at least like to have all such resources in one collection, and writing long strings of text with 'synta morph analy diagram clause' to catch them all is unnecessarily complicated…
• I would also appreciate if dictionaries, lexicons, grammars, and the like, were listed as lang:greek/hebrew/etc, and not just English. Title:greek will never find a Greek/Swedish lexicon, if there ever is one; lang:greek would. And it catches stuff like the TDNT, which doesn't have the word 'Greek' in the title. 
• Torrey is listed as both 'R.A.', and 'R. A.'  Tischendorf is listed as both 'Constantin von' and 'Constantinus'. And, unless you've already fixed it, some guy I can't now remember is listed as both 'F.A' and 'F.A.'.
• Browne, author of The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, seems to have no first name.
• And if Good Things Come in Small Groups is indeed written in Afrikaans, my Afrikaans must be a great deal better than I thought it was…[:)]