Thanks for the heads up. I'll update JSword accordingly. Let me know if you
think I should wait a bit for greater stability. I'm guessing that the Paratext
abbreviations are reasonable abbreviations for user input?
Regarding the possibility of objections of inclusion: To me an osisID is of
value if it might be in a SWORD module that conforms to BCV addressing. To
SWORD and JSword it is just a normalized name that has robust lookup. Until it
is part of a canon*.h (or JSword's equivalent) it is not of much use to a
front-end.
In His Service,
DM
On Aug 27, 2012, at 12:53 AM, Chris Little <chris...@crosswire.org> wrote:
> I've updated the list of OSIS abbreviations at
> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/OSIS_Book_Abbreviations
>
> These aren't strictly SBL abbreviations, so they aren't strictly OSIS
> identifiers, but those abbreviations that aren't official are
> SBL-abbreviation-inspired as much as possible within the parameters of legal
> Sword book identifiers. I'm planning to add all of the books on this list to
> Sword as our pool of Bible books, so please identify any books you would
> recommend adding or removing.
>
> The basic criteria for inclusion are:
> - appearance in any modern Bible accepted by any Christian church
> - appearance in any critical or scholarly edition of the Bible
> - appearance in biblical manuscripts or editions of historical
> significance
> - appearance in Paratext's book code set, plus those books recommended
> for inclusion by Neil Rees in the document linked from the
> wiki but minus those intended for private use (XXA-XXG) or used
> to identify non-biblical material (front matter, concordances,
> etc.)
>
> In addition, since a significant portion of the apostolic fathers have been
> included in Bibles, I added all the apostolic fathers books to the list.
> (Five have to be included based on the above criteria. Another 14 have to be
> included to complete the set.) Including the full set of apostolic fathers in
> our Bible books pool will permit us to issue 'Bibles' consisting of just the
> apostolic fathers, as OLB & BibleWorks do. And we could conceivably start
> making references to the apostolic fathers as we currently do to the Bible
> and do apostolic fathers interlinears, etc. That said, I'm certainly will to
> hear objections to inclusion of the full set of apostolic fathers within our
> book pool.
>
>
> Some things that are strictly excluded:
> - The Ethiopic broader canon. (Identified here:
> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:OSIS_Book_Abbreviations#Ethiopic_Broader_Canon)
> These books, though considered canonical are not considered biblical, by
> which I mean they aren't part of Bibles printed in this tradition. So they
> aren't Bible books by the above criteria. I'm not completely averse to adding
> them, but sources I could find on the broader canon weren't in sufficient
> agreement for me feel comfortable assigning identifiers without some input
> from someone in the community (meaning the Bible Society of Ethiopia,
> probably).
> - Pseudepigapha and Apocrypha that do not meet the above criteria
> - Books mentioned in lists of canonical books or stichometric catalogs that
> don't meet the above criteria
>
>
> Some books I'm still somewhat uncertain about are listed on the Talk page:
> http://www.crosswire.org/wiki/Talk:OSIS_Book_Abbreviations#Books_of_questionable_canonicity.2Fbiblicality
>
> In particular, there are claims that the Ascension of Isaiah and the Acts of
> Paul & Thecla belong to the Ethiopic & Armenian Orthodox biblical traditions,
> respectively. But I can find no concrete evidence of this. If you have
> reliable information on either of these, please speak up.
>
>
> --Chris
>
>
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