Hi Peter, Do you know there already is a Lightfoot commentary module? Or are you just making an OSIS version from scratch?
Regarding your comment about a lack of foreign language material. There are probably two reasons that have a direct influence on this: 1. The total amount of material 2. The digitalized amount of material This seems to make it clear why by far most of the material that is readily available online is English. But I don't think that's the real reason that there aren't a lot of non-English Christian texts online/SWORD modules available. I think there might be a lot of wasted potential as far as getting the non-programming, non-wiki-/mailinglist-reading parts of the SWORD community involved. I believe a lot more could and would be achieved if it were easier to get involved and to make modules. Think how cool it would be to get a group of people together to systematically plan what important works you would like to see and how to get them, to maybe scan, OCR, edit a document and eventually make a module together. (But I have a feeling this might not only be a matter of getting less advanced users involved, it might just as well be a problem of identification with the product, as front-end users seldom get in touch with the back-end community.) But, at least regarding German works, you might just be looking in the wrong place on CCEL. You already found those German Calvin Commentaries. The Keil-Delitzsch commentaries (OT) and Theodor Zahn commentaries (NT) are available here <http://www.sermon-online.de/search.pl?lang=de&id=0&searchstring=Delitzsch&language=0&x=0&y=0> and here <http://www.sermon-online.de/search.pl?lang=de&id=0&start=1&searchstring=Theodor+Zahn&author=0&language=0&category=0&mediatype=0&order=12&count=25&x=0&y=0>. The OCR quality isn't perfect, but exceeds my expectations and should be sufficient to make at least some kind of module. The same website might also have a number of other interesting public domain writings available. As far as I know, all of the material is legal (said commentaries definitely; a big amount has been made available with permission by CLV). Adolf Schlatters NT commentaries are available as an Online Bible module here <http://www.onlinebible.org/html/ger/user/schlatter.html>, so this might be a good starting point. Any of these three works would fill a huge gap. bibelkommentare.de is a project gathering and specifically translating German bible commentaries. I don't know their theological affiliations, but among the commentaries they offer for download <http://www.bibelkommentare.de/index.php?page=downloads&name=pdfcomments> are translated versions of Darby's commentaries and Mackintosh's Pentateuch commentary, and a few works by Rudolf Brockhaus. They should be cooperative as they already host modules for TheWord and MyBible. It might also be worth a try to talk to bibelbund.de. They make all issues of their journal "Bibel und Gemeinde <http://www.bibelbund.de/bibliothek.htm#bug>" (that are older than a year) available online, and a lot of the articles might be very helpful (we could compile them into a single module). But I do know what you mean about things not being available. It is almost shocking how little of Luther's commentaries is available on the net, or anything written by the Protestant Reformers for that matter. Ben Am 26.01.2011 00:09, schrieb Peter von Kaehne: > This is a very interesting 17th century commentary, mainly providing > realms of Jewish background info to the gospels. > > I am working on it right now. I obtained the plain (not ThML) text from > CCEL where it is explicitly marked as PD. Marking it up to OSIS/imp is > not overly difficult and will probably only require occasional hand editing. > > While I enjoy this, I find it also a bit distressing - that there is > this abundance of English language material but so little on other > languages. Even in German I found it practically impossible to find > useful PD texts of significance. > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page >
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