© June 2004 O verview of Bible Tools available on the Web by Christopher Priebe Online Community Development, Trinity Western University

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Introduction My name is Chris Priebe I develop online community for Trinity Western University (See my other presentation Sat 11:00-12:00) I have been researching Bible Tools since 1997 and have collected over 250 tools Why?

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Why do I care about this? The increasing empowerment technology brings Roman Roads, Printing presses, Sound Systems The difference of atoms and bits Walter Wilson, The Internet Church, The revolution of the hyperlink David Weinberger, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, 2002.

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 What can we do now with online Bible Study? Look up Bible Verses Search for keywords in Concordances Search Bible Dictionaries & Encyclopedias Look up the Meaning of a Greek Word in Strongs Or a Greek Lexicon or Historical Word UsageOr a Greek LexiconHistorical Word Usage Check the Commentaries Read or Search the Classical Writings Listen to Sermons on the Bible Text

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Problem: It is too much work to recreate these tools for my schools website? Solution: Add their tools to your site! Bible Verse of the Day! Actually lots of content can be “syndicated” Syndicated is techie for they do all the work making it and you get it free! Isn’t the web wonderful?Actually lots of content can be “syndicated”

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Problem: I want to include tools from all over the web not just one site? Solution: Bring all your tools together on one page. Now I get to brag about my own system.

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Problem: I want to link directly from my course notes to a Bible verse for context. Solution: Add a program to read through your notes and “hyperlink” all your Bible Verses. Example:

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 What is the Future of Bible Tools on the web? Hopefully more quality and current resources will go online (however there is Intellectual Property and copyright Issues) Hopefully more useful search queries that rank the results based on most likely to least likely. Ex. Google Google What are some projects we can join?

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Open Source Bible Tools Project I am releasing the code for mybibletools.com as open source. This will allow schools, churches, etc to link to over 250 tools to their sites. They can contribute more tools to the db. It will also become a library of functions to do Bible tasks like parse a reference, lookup a verse from a db, hyperlink verses in a document. Care to join me?

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Massive Open-Content Commentary The Wiki Revolution Wiki is Hawaiian for “Quick Quick”The Wiki Revolution Starting with Matthew Henries Commentary, Torreys Topics and an illustration db of 20,000 illustrations. Allow 100,000s of pastors, teachers, etc to refine the content Allow users to describe the content with keywords and Bible references so searches return most relevant. Language filters and “I think this has been vandalized” buttons protect content. Mirrored with other Universities, etc Example: index, Search, ShowItemindexSearchShowItem

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Bible Translation Possibilities Using the same kind of technology but restricting editing to appointed teams of translators + helpers Translators could upload early work from the field Coworkers can proof and update from the other side of the world Natural readers can check and add comments or even commentaries When a language group goes online the first and perhaps only resource in their language would be the Bible.

© June 2004Overview of Bible Tools Available on the Web Chris Priebe, Trinity Western University, at CCCU 2004 Discussion