Troy A. Griffitts wrote:
Guys,
Last week was a great time in New Orleans at SBL. Many good
relationships were forged or rekindled and hope some exciting things
will come from the time spent there.
There was one session that I think gives us something against which to
measure ourselves (not that it's my personal goal to compete with
commercial vendors, but nonetheless these are good benchmarks).
In the Computer Technology Track there was a 1 hour session call Bible
Technology Shootout where Logos, Bibleworks, Accordance, and Olive Tree
were given the floor to show how their software solved 5 common Bible
research problems.
It might be fun to see how each of your frontends can answer these
challenges, and where we need to provide better support in the engine to
give you the results you need to offer this functionality to your end
user.
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So, here are the challenges presented to the vendors at that session:
1) Give the parsing of a word and its meaning from a standard
source.)
This is very exciting to me. I just want to reiterate that the look-up
for lemma needs to work when the key is an actual lemma and not a
Strong's number. For unicode keys the current sorting scheme doesn't
work. I would say this first item should be a priority. What a user
wants first is the ability to look up words quickly in order to
read/translate. Only once that function is present do the following more
advanced features make sense.
The other day I was talking with a fellow PhD student whose work is in
patristics. She has to take a NT class next semester, so she wanted to
buy her first Bible software product. I so much wanted to recommend one
of the CrossWire front-ends, but I couldn't because of this feature.
Part of that story is that a standard lexicon (Strong's is out of date)
needs to be offered to be attractive to scholars, but to make use of
standard lexica the front-ends need to be able to handle unicode keys
better.
In any case, I am excited to see where this conversation might go. Any
progress on obtaining permission to create a module with the Westminster
morphology database?
Daniel
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