Asking me to fantisize
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 ??
