Jonathan Morgan wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 9:42 AM, Chris Little <chris...@crosswire.org> wrote: > >> Ideally, osisRefs should point at references using a standard reference >> scheme. Obviously that won't exist for every work, but I suspect there is a >> standard reference scheme for the Book of Concord. I find a description of a >> simple & compact reference scheme at >> http://bookofconcord.org/abbreviations.php, though I don't know if it is >> necessarily standard. So the best solution is probably to recode the keys of >> Concord to employ IDs like "Concord:SA.Preface", but you may not want to go >> to the trouble of doing that. >> > > Correct me if I'm wrong, but won't that mean that all users will see > "SA > Preface" rather than "The Smalcald Articles > Preface of Dr. > Martin Luther"? Is that a good thing? I quite agree that standard > references would be a nice thing, but not if it interferes with how > the book is displayed to the user. [Probably what is really needed is > to separate the OSIS ref lookup from the key displayed to the user, > but I doubt that is a small job or will happen soon]. > You're right Jon about what would be displayed. Upon reflection, I think that the change would also break everyone's bookmarks.
For me to recode using a display name and a lookup is no harder (before I start) than a simple conversion to a "simplified" title. The question is whether it can make it into all of the required source codes easily. Maybe someone else can answer that question. Brian
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