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Re: BFBS 1904 (Nestle Greek NT for British Foreign Bible Society, public domain)

westonru...@gmail.com (Weston Ruter) — Tue, 22 May 2012 16:03:29 UT

Wow, I looked at the FAQ <[link]> and
turns out that he used our Manuscript Comparator to do the transcription!

*How did you make the transcription?*

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Weston Ruter
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BFBS 1904 (Nestle Greek NT for British Foreign Bible Society, public domain)

nigel.chap...@gmail.com (Nigel Chapman) — Tue, 22 May 2012 15:09:42 UT

Hi all,

Anyone looking for a decent public domain Greek text might like this.
Diego Santo's transcription of the 1904 Nestle text. Looks pretty
usable, and it has no restrictions whatsoever on usage.

[link]

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Nigel Chapman, Sydney AU

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Any open scripture content available for importing into a church app?

sean.boi...@gmail.com (SeanB) — Sun, 20 May 2012 02:03:34 UT

The license for the Lexham English Bible is pretty generous and really only restricts certain kinds of commercial activities: [link]. IANAL but it seems like there wouldn't be any problem using it for an app within your own church (unless you're also thinking you want to sell it to other churches).

Re: Any open scripture content available for importing into a church app?

jonathon.bl...@gmail.com (jonathon) — Fri, 18 May 2012 17:51:06 UT

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That is one of the functions for which _The Sword Project API_ was
designed. The limitation on using it, is that the software has to be
released under the GPL.

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Re: Any open scripture content available for importing into a church app?

oebi...@openenglishbible.org (Russell Allen) — Fri, 18 May 2012 03:27:00 UT

Hi Dekard,

If you want a fully open English translation of the Bible with no restrictions on use, then your options are really either the World English Bible ([link]) which is a full Bible based on the ASV with a NT based on Byzantine texts, or the Open English Bible ([link]) which at the moment is NT only (Psalms also available in development) based mostly on Alexandrian texts.

Any open scripture content available for importing into a church app?

dek...@gmail.com (Dekard) — Thu, 17 May 2012 23:38:22 UT

Was wondering if anyone knows of any content that can be imported into
a church app so it would have a bible in it?

Re: OSIS Bible example?

chris...@crosswire.org (Chris Little) — Mon, 14 May 2012 03:41:53 UT

We specifically designed OSIS to support multiple, concurrent reference
schemes, so I would not say that it is not recommended.

--Chris

Re: OSIS Bible example?

davidtro...@aol.com (David Troidl) — Sun, 13 May 2012 15:38:32 UT

Hi Russell,

It is possible to mark up multiple numbering systems, see the OSIS
manual, but not recommended. In the WLC:
[link]
I used the Hebrew system, and just added notes where the English system
differs.

I don't know of any tool that does this directly.

Re: OSIS Bible example?

oebi...@openenglishbible.org (Russell Allen) — Sun, 13 May 2012 11:33:15 UT

Thanks guys. Interesting points.

Supplementary question, is there an existing tool to take a Bible in either usfm or OSIS and change the chapter/verse structure from NSRV to the standard Jewish system (eg JPS Tanach)? Or can I markup multiple numbering systems in a single OSIS file?

Best, Russell

Re: OSIS Bible example?

dhow...@pmbx.net (Daniel Owens) — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:16:33 UT

I agree with Neal, though I see the problems that it introduces for
software developers. The other day I started digitizing
Abbott-Smith's Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament (

[link] <[link]>),

Re: OSIS Bible example?

ref...@gmx.net (Peter von Kaehne) — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:28:10 UT

Our server had a catastrophic failure of the harddrive and is getting
rebuilt.

svn is working

ftp too

the wiki should be up and running today or tomorrow.

Peter

Re: OSIS Bible example?

dcowen...@gmail.com (Daniel Owens) — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:19:23 UT

I agree with Neal, though I see the problems that it introduces for
software developers. The other day I started digitizing
Abbott-Smith's Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament ([link] <[link]>),

Re: OSIS Bible example?

davidtro...@aol.com (David Troidl) — Sat, 12 May 2012 15:12:47 UT

Hi Russell,

Looking around, I found:
[link]
Crosswire.org used to have a whole bunch of information on OSIS and a
tool for USFM to OSIS conversion. Right now all Google links to their
Wiki seem to fail. Maybe someone from Crosswire could shed some light

Re: OSIS Bible example?

n...@idch.org (Neal Audenaert) — Sat, 12 May 2012 13:45:15 UT

Throwing in my $0.02 from an academic perspective. There's a philosophical
question about markup here. My experience is more with TEI than OSIS, so
the goals of OSIS may (probably do) diverge a bit here, but these systems
both address the same general needs: rich markup of texts.

I'd argue that markup allows an editor to describe the structure of a text

Re: OSIS Bible example?

ref...@gmx.net (Peter von Kaehne) — Sat, 12 May 2012 10:09:31 UT

As Weston writes, the arbitriness of some OSIS constructs makes it
difficult to capture all permutations into software.

At CrossWire we have a loosely (un)defined way we prefer, allowing for a
fair amount of permutation and variation, but not all.

usfm2osis.pl is an incomplete tool in growth. This means