I wonder whether the discussion maybe has lost the original intention of Franz' question.
I image his scenario as being this: he has a electronic resource with quotations from the bible which he might has marked up as @cRef="#VUL_GN_20" or something like that. He wants to have these things turned into links (or tool tip content harvested from links, or index entries etc) in the publication of his resource. This should be done automatically and should result in URLs that would be stable over time. What he needs in order to get that, is something we would call "canonic URLs" which is a sort of a PURL.
In an ideal world addresses like this would be available: http://www.bible.org/vulgata/genesis/20
Franz would generate links from his given information via xslt (or another technology) in the process of publishing and would rely on the stability of such a URL because as a PURL, the institution behind bible.org would guarantee for it. Technically there would be a resolver behind what only looks like an URL but is simply a given "name" in fact. And that resolver resolves to the actual technical address ...
So if we'd take this ...
http://www.biblija.net/biblija.cgi?Bible=Bible&m=Gn+20&id38=1&id... the automatic creation of a link would be possible from @cRef="#VUL_GN_20" but will the URL be stable over time? What will happen at the next technical changeover? Probably there will be no "biblija.cgi?" anymore ...
This looks better: http://www.bibleserver.com/ref/1020000#/text/VUL/1.Mose20 Well, using this, Franz maybe should have had @cRef="#VUL_1.Mose_20" in his data, but behold!, this works too: http://www.bibleserver.com/#/text/VUL/Genesis20 - so Franz' data is alright already. And these addresses may be stable for the future since with a good resolver would resolve these addresses strings to a different technical address if necessary. If you use a resolver anyway, of course, this would even be nicer: http://www.bibleserver.com/VUL/1.Mose20
The question for the quality and reliability of the text remains. This is connected to the trustworthiness of the institution behind bibleserver.com. And an address like http://www.bibleserver.com/VUL/1.Mose20 has to be understood as a "default". So even more complex systems are possible here. If there were variant editions of the Vulgata from which texts have been taken, then http://www.bibleserver.com/VUL/1.Mose20 would just result in what would be stated to be the "canonic" version of that verse. But http://www.bibleserver.com/VUL/editionX/1.Mose20 would lead to a specific edition, and http://www.bibleserver.com/VUL/editionX/1.Mose20/image would lead to a digital image of the printed page instead of the "default" presentation of the text as text ...
No need to say, that we want to have these "canonic addresses" not just for the bible but for potentially everything (that we want to talk about).
Best, Patrick
Am 29.06.2011 15:59, schrieb Charles E. Jones:
I have assembled links to everything cited in this thread in AWOL: http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/06/online-bible-tools.html
I'll add others as I encounter them. Please let me know if you have suggestions.
-Chuck Jones- ISAW - NYU
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