Two major projects that have been released with Logos 4 (though work is still ongoing)

1. The Logos Controlled Vocabulary
2. Bible Knowledgebase: semantic organizaation of information about entities in the Biblical text

The traditional approach to the Bible follows the linear order of the text, perhaps augmented by a Bible dictionary and commentary. With the BK we're trying to provide different lenses or facets for viewing and navigating through the text. This supports one of our Logos slogans: Facilitate Serendipitous Discovery.

Compare TimBL's rules for Linked Data:

1. Use URIs to identify things (= Identity)
   • Use HTTP URIs so people can look things up
2. Provide useful information in a standard format when someone references a URI (= Utility)
3. Include links to other URIs (= Relationships)

Since the last BibleTech, BK entities are now addressable by Logos hyperlinks

Resources in Scholar's Silver, a mid-level product

Books on your kindle or iPad aren't any smarter for being part of a digital library: they're still individual, disconnected bundles of content. They don't get smarter when you add more books.

We're committed to enabling Metcalfe's Law for digital libraries: value of a network is proportional to the square of the number of connections

• Rich markup
• Original content
• Information integration
• Not just search, but smarts

It's so simple: just three basic elements. How could we build a world wide web on this?!? Simplicity is good, but limited:

• only a single destination
• no semantics on the link itself, just "jump"
• unidirectional: you don't know what points to the target (without a search engine to process the entire web)
• very limited preview of the target: a URL doesn't really tell you much about what you'll find there

We try to do better in Logos 4, with sub-menus on the right-click (context) menu

The human visual system is amazingly good at focusing on relevant details in a large complex picture. We scan, then attend, then focus in and see dtail. How do we do this for Bible study so we can look at data patterns and put information in a richer context, not just hyperlink out from a single point?

• One of the 63 maps we commissioned for Logos 4
• maps are one of the oldest technologies for contextualizing information
• geospatial relationship to other places: much more information here than just a list of placenames
• story relationship: selective inclusion of other places
• But only one kind of relationship: doesn't tell me:
  • which cities are larger, more important, mentioned more in the Bible (or at all)

what about putting people information in context?

• Nun is mentioned by name 30 times: how many times by himself? "none" :-)
• Family trees map one kind interpersonal relationship
• People also have place contexts: residence, or travel. We could combine them with maps, for example showing Paul's companions on different legs of his missionary journeys.

what about putting things information in context? One way to relate things to each other is by shared activites: you could describe them in prose, or ...

• via a picture (this one is from 1000 Bible Images). Imagine hyperlinks overlaid on this image.
• This shows much more about the interrelationships of these things than a simple list
  • demonstrates usage
  • shows relative size

First public presentation today about Biblical Events: goes back to my Composite Gospel project at SemanticBible.com. How do we provide a story view, rather than just the linear text?

• these are all ways of building "molecules" out of the information atoms of people/places/things. Back to the methodology: identity, utility, relationships
• the "Nun" problem comes from capturing name mentions without context
• Suppose we captured not just mentions but participation in the story?
• Intuitively, what we mean by "you know the story of Gideon's fleece"?
• Includes unnamed referents in the NT
• Elliot Ritzema both developed guidelines and annotated the events. Includes multiple defining texts, as well as mention texts.
• This is an early look: not yet released in Logos, and no announcements yet as to when it will be available.

• 1633 Events with ID, Title, Description, Defining text(s)
• 955 distinct Agents as participants (24% of 4000 total)
• 24% also have "mention texts"

• not just by reference: 18 stories where Gideon is a participant.
• 18 doesn't include a mention in 1 Ki and Heb