Hmmmm, I have been meaning to bring this up on the list. I have had quite a
few requests for the ability to sync bookmarks between SWORD front-ends and
PocketSword (on the iPhone). I haven't had time to think much about it, but
what I have thought of is:
- We would need a common bookmark format across front-ends that wished to
participate in such a feature.
- It would probably be best to have this all accessible on some 3rd party
server, given there is so much already out there.
- Something like this would require thought WRT the whole "persecuted country"
thing (see what we do for the install manager, for example).
- This could simply be a database somewhere that users connect to over http &
basically retrieve a plain text file, like our .conf files, and be built into
the SWORD lib, which then parses the file for us and creates "bookmark"
objects? with the ability to add/delete/modify each "bookmark" object?
anyway, I would love for this to happen. But it requires a collaboration
between front-end developers to make this work. What attributes does each
"bookmark" object need, for example? What do the various front-ends currently
use? I'm due to be completely rewriting the PocketSword bookmark system in the
next couple of months (yay, I hear PocketSword users say, cause it's currently
overly simple), so I haven't thought about much, besides allowing a "bookmark"
object to simply be a container for other "bookmark" objects (a "folder") &
then for "bookmark" objects to be contained in these "folders"... :)
Personally, I also want PocketSword to be able to highlight verses if they are
bookmarked, but the highlight colour wouldn't need to be part of the "bookmark"
object -- I can create a look-up table between the "folder" names & a colour
assigned to that "folder". :)
Perhaps I have said enough to show that I'd like for this to happen? :)
Perhaps I've said too much and people don't want to be thinking in this much
detail about this yet? Either way, hope that helps :)
ybic
nic... :)
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Nic Carter
PocketSword Developer - an iPhone Bible Study app
www: http://crosswire.org/pocketsword
iTunes: http://itunes.apple.com/app/Pocketsword/id341046078
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On 23/03/2010, at 7:16 AM, jhphx wrote:
> On 3/23/2010 9:33 AM, Konstantin Maslyuk wrote:
>> What bookmarking service is preferable for such task?
>> There is any public data synchronization service?
>> Or we could create own on crosswire.org?
>>
>>
>
> I think an interesting way to do it, that combines another recent idea about
> bibliographic information, would be to create a Zotero SWORD translator
> (usually a type of scraper but that may not work in this case) for FireBible.
> That would provide not just synchronization but also the ability to
> collaborate and publicly display your collections of "bookmarks" on Zotero.
>
> Jerry
>
>
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