Ideas from Letters/Articles received.
Brainstorming ideas about an ideal Bible site for the next generation. (Nov/Dec 2005)
[[What are your ideas??]]
1. Advanced Search
- Basic words
- Verse/chapter/book
- Notes
- Materials
- Topical
- Languages
- Versions
- Strong + Greek
- Grammatical
- Word family
- Synonim
- Thesauruses
- Audio search
- History log
- From my site
2. Display Alternatives
- Mini site (download via handphone)
- Reverse verse index + materials
- Read bible in one year
- Read devotional in one year
- Target gateways
- Parallel
- Concordances
- Bible study
3. Bubble, tool tips & active content
- Verse notes
- Dictionaries (words, names, maps)
- Stats + basic words
- Images
4. Print Out
- Bible Multi-version
- Map/images
- Notes
- Search results
- Dynamic PDF
5. Download
- PDF, CHM, HTM,
- Modul OLB, e-sword, SWORD ... x10
- Engine Software
- File/Formats x10
6. Access
- XML
- RSS
- Toolbar
- Bookmark
- Send to friends
- PDA browser
- Mobile
- WAP
- SMS
- Audio & Music
7. Intranet + Black Box
8. CD version(s) (ex. MicroWeb)
9. Other materials (see Content List Page)
- Video & Audio
- Bible Land
- Bible Studies
- Sermon summaries
- Sermon outlines
- Materials for kids
- Learning materials
- Articles
- Dictionaries
- Biographies
- Modul list OLB
- Devotional stuffs
- Bible Games
- Bible Quiz
- Timeline bible
- Music/Hymns
- Library
10. Customization
- My Bible |==> discussion group
- Our Bible (Group) | submit materials, etc.
- My note
- WIKI
- Translation project
- My site
- Sessions
- Historical Profiles
- History log
- Put on my site
11. Interactive
- Related (Amazon Style) |
- Who else (Amazon Style) |==> profile/custom
- What else (Amazon Style) |
- Blog
- Community
- Chatt (Forums)
- Discussion mailing lists
- Bulletin
- Hits (Count, Stats)
- Poll
12. e-Commerce
- Bible Order
- Order CD ROM
- Order CD Audio
- Order CD ... x5
- Order books
13. Links
- Cross References
- Notes
- Related (OLB style)
14. Original Languages/Source
- Greek & Hebrew
- Linguistic study
- Lexicon/language dictionaries
- ITL + Stats
- English
- Grammar/Parsing
- Strongs
- Learn Hebrew & Greek (Flash Card)
15. Translation facility
16. LSI (Clusty)
17. Others
+ Flash
- Info + Help + Tutorials`
- Credits & Copyrights
- Link to another sites
- Site map
- Partners corner
- Contact
- News
Asking me to fantisize about software might be a mistake on your part ;-)
I've been thinking about web2.0 community driven sites quite a bit lately -
(Submitted Dec 16 2006)
Web 2.0 Community Driven Sites
1. Make it personal
I would want to do my own hi-lites, add notes, cross references to other verses and other extra-biblical resources. I would want to be able to create devotionals, studies, etc. with references, to my notes and verses dynamically included (blog-ish?).
2. Add tags - like catigorized hi-lites to texts
I read a passage, it has meaning to my life that can be expressed as some single word value or values ('holiness', 'money', 'giving', 'prayer', etc) - later on, I can look up my 'holiness' tagged verses/passages.
3. Share my personal stuff
Allow a community, either global or controlled by me ("MyFriends"), access to see my notes, hi-lites, tags, etc. Mark access to my resources as being public, private, friends-only, etc.
4. See others studies/blogs, notes, tags from the community, as a subset of the community, ranked by popularity of the tag, etc.
5. Enpart "credibility" to other community members, like the karma systems of forums, so as the community trusts a member's notes, etc. they rank higher in searches. More credible members have more "trust points" to give to others so a web of trust thing develops.
6. Provide interfaces for micro-content sharing, so other sites, personal pages, etc. can include dynamic content from the site to enhance their own sites. RSS feeds, SOAP, AJAX interfaces, etc.
7. Many types of "official" resources, concordences, translations, collections or notes, audio(greek and hebrew pronounciations, read aloud verses), dictionaries. When I don't understand something, or I can't express some concept clearly, the more resources available, the better.
8. Ad-hoc or Sub-communities
Individuals can create groups with common interests that can act as ready-made community subsets for filtering tags, notes, etc. I could create a group called "MoneyChangers" that would focus on biblical finances, or "ItsAllGreekToMe" would be a group of greek scholars (amateur and professional), etc...
The community parts are the highest on the cool-ness list - a 'trust' system, "My friends", ad-hoc groups, are very cool.
While this is a web-based vision, the open interfaces would allow traditional clients access to edit content(blogs), download/update studies or note sets, do searches, etc. A rich client might cache most of the useful stuff, but have a "Go online" function for richer searchs, etc.
One thing I would like to see in a rich-client would be a focus on sermon/study/devotional editing - provide a really good editor that can produce inserts, presentations, sermon notes, web exports, etc.
Most of the open tools are just study centric, with no link to editing a final product. It would need to be cross-platform, user-centric, and open-source.
=== The above is response to the question quoted below ===
Hi,
I need an opinion, some thoughts/input, ... and a bit of brainstorming.
Wanna give it a try?? ... :-)
Here goes .... give me your answer to these two questions.
1) What does the "ideal bible" website look like ... to you ?? Dream a little !! :-) What would you find/want in a "NEXT GENERATION" e-Bible ?? ... and its Site??
2) How can people =participate= (more) w/ the Bible ??