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August 14th, 2006 by Richard K Miller | Filed under Cool Sites, Mormon.If you're new here, read more about the More Good Foundation. We help members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormon church) share their beliefs on the Internet. Learn more about what Mormons believe or talk with Mormons at LDS.net.
Scripture Tag brings Web 2.0 to your scriptures. You can “tag” any verse in the Standard Works, the same way Flickr lets you tag your photos. For example, 2nd Nephi 31:13 is tagged with the keywords “Holy Ghost”, “baptism”, and “baptism of fire”. If you click on “baptism” you’ll see a list of every scripture about baptism.
This is similar to the Church’s Topical Guide, but instead of a fixed taxonomy of topics specified by the Church, it uses a “folksonomy” built by everyone, which may be good or bad — good because anyone can classify any scripture under any topic, but bad because there’s potential for spam. Fortunately, sites like Flickr and Delicious have shown that great value is derived from letting users freely apply tags.
Great site!
Interesting site, Richard. They say that for any idea you may be working on there are several other people also working on similar concepts.
This is similar to the web 2.0 scripture site I have been working on though I have significant differences in the feature set. Ironically I had already registered scripturetags.net before I became aware of this site.
Now…if only I could make more time to work on it!
J. Max Wilson: I still look forward to seeing the site you’ve been developing. I think there’s room for two. Or would it be interesting to combine efforts with Stewart Foss?
Part of the reason mine is taking so long is I have been working on a custom back-end MVC framework for it to run on that uses XSLT for templating the presentation layer, Ajax, and a simple PDO wrapper for Data Access Object manipulation that also allows simple serialization of Data Objects and sets of Data Objects from the database to XML that can be parsed by the XSLT to display the data in the presentation.
I know there are a ton of MVC frameworks for PHP out there, and I have used a few of them….but I really wanted something PHP5 specific with just the features I wanted and not a lot of extra overhead.
I have a Subversion repository for my scripturetags.net project, so collaboration is certainly possible, but I haven’t committed anything to it yet (I’m just lazy
).
I will probably be using the the data from the Mormon Documentation project (Postgresql scripture database specifically) just as Stewart did.
If you or Stewart Foss are interested in the feature set I have planned let me know and I’ll go into more detail via email.
[...] Web 2.0 is commonly used to refer to Web sites that allow heavy participation and content from users. We’ve previously blogged about Scripture Tag, which allows users to “tag” scriptures with keywords, and Sustain’d, a Mormon version of Digg. [...]