Logos Bible Software invites programmers, publishers, tagging experts, information/library scientists, technologists, thought leaders, design gurus, information architects, webmasters, and mash-up creators to lead conference sessions and roundtable discussions at BibleTech 2008. If your work happens at the intersection of Bible and technology, we want to hear from you!

BibleTech : 2008 Session Schedule

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January 25 : 2008

Time

General

Room 1

Room 2

8:00-9:00 AM Registration
9:00-9:45 AM General Session
9:45-10:00 AM Break
10:00-10:45 AM Session 01

"MorphGNT and the Building of Linguistic Databases for New Testament Greek"
J.K. Tauber
(MP3 audio)

"Communities, Content, and Syndication in a Consumer-Driven Digital and Print-On-Demand Environment"
Todd Tillinghast
10:45-11:00 AM Break
11:00-11:45 AM Session 02 "Internals of The SWORD Engine"
Troy A. Griffitts
"Building Community or Building Babel?"
Karl Hoffman
(MP3 Audio)
11:45-12:00 PM Break
12:00-12:45 PM Session 03 "Treebanks of Biblical Texts"
Andi Wu
(MP3 Audio)
"OSIS and modern Bible Tools"
Nick Garbidakis
12:45-2:00 PM Lunch
2:00-2:45 PM Session 04 "Re-Making it Visible"
John Hudson
(MP3 Audio)
"The Zoomable Bible"
Sean Boisen
(MP3 Audio)
2:45-3:00 PM Break
3:00-3:45 PM Session 05 "Web Standards: Speaking in Today's Vernacular"
Nathan Smith &
Christian Bradford

(MP3 Audio)
"High-Quality Machine Translation Using a Semantic Interlingua"
Kurt Fuqua
(MP3 Audio)
3:45-4:00 PM Break
4:00-4:45 PM Session 06 "Locating New Testament Cross-References: Some Strategies"
Rick Brannan
(MP3 Audio)
"New Culture, New Media"
Mark Miller
4:45-6:00 PM FREE
6:00-7:00 PM Dinner
7:00-7:30 PM FREE
7:30-8:30 PM BOF Sessions

January 26 : 2008

Time

General

Room 1

Room 2

8:00-9:00 AM Breakfast
9:00-9:45 AM Session 01 "Bibleref: a Microformat for Bible References"
Sean Boisen
"The State of Open Source Bible Software Development"
Troy A. Griffitts
9:45-10:00 AM Break
10:00-10:45 AM Session 02 "The ESV and Bible Usability"
Stephen Smith
"An Architecture for Computational Linguistics – The Scalable Language API"
Kurt Fuqua
10:45-11:00 AM Break
11:00-11:45 AM Session 03 "Digital Resources for Biblical Maps and Mapping"
Mark Hoffman
"Electronic Publishing and Bible Software in a Fast-Moving Mobile Landscape"
Drew Haninger
(MP3 Audio)
11:45-12:00 PM Break
12:00-12:45 PM Session 04 "The Challenges and Future of Bible Software in a Mobile World"
Stephen Johnson
(MP3 Audio)
"The Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew: A Bible Dictionary Designed to be Published Electronically"
Reinier de Blois
(MP3 Audio)
12:45-2:00 PM Lunch
2:00-2:45 PM Session 05 "Open Source Bible Software: The Re:Greek Transition"
Zack Hubert
(MP3 Audio)
"Topic Maps and the Bible"
Patrick Durusau
(MP3 Audio)
2:45-3:00 PM Break    
3:00-3:45 PM Session 06 "Visualizing Micro and Macro Structures in Scripture"
Bob MacDonald
(MP3 Audio)
"Beyond Mobility: Synchronizing User-Created Data Between Platforms, Readers, and Vendors"
Craig Rairdin
(MP3 Audio)
3:45-4:00 PM Break
4:00-4:45 PM Session 07 "Electronic Tools and Bible Translation"
Neil Mayhew &
Larry Waswick

(MP3 Audio)
 
4:45-5:00 PM Break
5:00-5:45 PM Session 08  
5:45 PM End of BibleTech : 2008