[sword-devel] New OSIS chapter/verse checking utility

Peter von Kaehne refdoc at gmx.net
Tue Sep 30 07:13:06 MST 2008


While I can not say much about the further OSIS conversion steps, I think you want to be cautious and very careful how you approach the Swedish Bible society. It is easy to upset people over copyrights and it takes years to recover from that.

Dealing with similar situations I found most helpful having a ready text available, but also - and sometimes more improtantly having a translated front-end(s). Also have a look at GoBible (for J2MEE Mobile phones) - once you got your OSIS source ready this is an easy thing too and often gets people quite excited.

Peter


-------- Original-Nachricht --------
> Datum: Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:41:27 +0200
> Von: "David Fredin" <xduffy at gmail.com>
> An: "SWORD Developers\' Collaboration Forum" <sword-devel at crosswire.org>
> Betreff: Re: [sword-devel] New OSIS chapter/verse checking utility

> Interested in sharing the source for that conversion of html-bibles?
> 
> I am working on a conversion of the Swedish Bible 2000 (not a version
> number but the year it was released :-) ). And so far I have
> downloaded every chapter of the Bible as separate html-files, imported
> them into a sqlite-db with minimal html-markup (done with python + the
> BeautifulSoup-parser). So I suppose the last step to OSIS shouldn't be
> too hard. But any hints or pieces of advice is very welcome.
> 
> The hardest part I suppose is to then talk the Swedish biblecommission
> into releasing it into the wild under an Creative Commons license, or
> such...
> 
> All the best!
> // David Fredin
> 
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 22:13, Steven J. DeRose <sderose at acm.org> wrote:
> > Great info, thanks David! I have code in there to cover the Psalm
> > ascriptions, but I'll check vs. the sources you mention to be sure
> > I've got them all covered. The Slavonic book order difference is new
> > to me -- many thanks for pointing it out, I'll add an option for that.
> >
> > Side note -- i'm presently hacking at some code to convert a bunch of
> > online bibles to very regular OSIS files, which I'll then put online
> > somewhere (Troy, might you want to host them?). Anybody up for
> > helping with that or taking a look at results as I produce them? (I
> > wrote osisCheck mostly to ensure that my converters don't screw
> > anything up....).
> >
> >>Date: Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:33:08 -0700 (PDT)
> >>From: David Haslam <d.haslam at ukonline.co.uk>
> >>Subject: Re: [sword-devel] New OSIS chapter/verse checking utility
> >>To: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> >>Message-ID: <19515509.post at talk.nabble.com>
> >>
> >>Take account that the Psalms are numbered differently in various canons.
> See
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psalms#Numbering
> >>
> >>And also that versification of the Psalms that have canonical
> ascriptions
> >>(such as "A Psalm of Asaph") can also differ. e.g. Most French Bibles
> assign
> >>verse 1 to these, and offset the rest by +1.  This observation is not
> >>included in the above Wikipedia page.
> >>
> >>The book order in the New Testament is not the same in Slavonic Bibles
> as it
> >>is in the Western canon. The General Epistles are all between Acts and
> >>Romans. A useful link is 
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
> >>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Books_of_the_Bible
> >>
> >>
> >>Best regards,
> >>David Haslam
> >
> > --
> >
> > Steve DeRose -- http://www.derose.net, email sderose at acm.org
> >
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> > http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
> > Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page
> >
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> ✉ mail: xduffy at gmail.com, david at fredin.org, david.fredin at swecasters.com
> ☎ mobil: 073-8289776
> blog: http://fredin.org/david/blog/
> GodPod Sweden podcast: http://godpodsweden.com
> Radio Kyrkans framtid: http://kyrkansframtid.se
> _______________________________________________
> sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel at crosswire.org
> http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel
> Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page

-- 
Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger



More information about the sword-devel mailing list