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openlp.org Bible Database Creator released

By raoul on 04 June 2006

openlp.org Bible Database Creator allows you to create openlp.org bibles from CSV files. Then all you need to do is to put the file you generated into the \data\bibles folder, and openlp.org will pick it up automatically.

The format of the CSV file is as follows:
[book],[chapter],[verse],"[verse text]"

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bible in csv format.

By crisam on 27 June 2006

Hi,

I found this website: bibledatabase.org. They have many version of bible and in many language which they say is in csv file. I tried to download the bilbe version in portuguese and came as a text file (in good way to convert to a csv file), however i tried to import to excel program and then convert to a csv file. It gives me some error. Maybe i am doing something wrong. If someone knows how to do it. I really appreciate!?!!!

Cristiano Martins
Peace to all!!

Source for files?

By damurphy on 20 June 2006

Where can you find CSV files? Is there a place on the internet for such files?

Dieter

RE: Source for files?

By raoul on 20 June 2006

hi dieter,

unfortunately, you can't find them on the internet. most versions of the bible are copyright and won't allow us to include them with openlp.org. i've actually had to remove the NIV version of the bible for that very reason (sad, isn't it?). if you have a particular version of the bible that you'd like in openlp.org, you'll need to get hold of it yourself.

of course, you're welcome to speak to the copyright owner of which ever version of the bible you use, to see if you can get it included in the openlp.org installation. we would love to be able to include as many versions of the bible in openlp.org as we can.

Fair Use Laws

By damurphy on 21 June 2006

The "Fair Use" clause of the copyright law permits me to make copies in another format if I only use one copy at a time and do not distribute the copies to others. I do this all of the time for CDs which I rip to play on my MP3 player. I currently many copies of Bibles in other formats--some of which I am not using. Copyright owners try to convince people that they cannot use copyrighted works in any other format. However, this is not true.

An alternative could be to use a standard format as e-sword, STEP or ThML.

Thanks!

Dieter

Standard format?

By emsearcy on 02 July 2006

If you want an *open* standard format, I would suggest OSIS [1]. That way we could link in to Crosswire's large module database of public-domain (and many-lingual!) bibles [2].

After all, this is an open-source project, and it's great to bring focus to other great projects like the Crosswire's The Sword Project (I use the OSIS-based MacSword myself).

This is why these projects make their APIs publicly available--so others can benefit. Perhaps integration with the Sword API / OSIS can be a goal for 3.0 (or even 2.0).

Eric

[1] http://www.bibletechnologies.net/
[2] http://www.crosswire.org/sword/modules/ModDisp.jsp?modType=Bibles

RE: Standard format?

By raoul on 04 July 2006

Yes, I have actually been thinking about that. It makes things easier for us too, since then we have a large number of bibles available to us.

I'll keep it in mind for openlp.org 2.0 (whenever that arrives).

Sword...

By wezlo on 08 July 2006

Yah dude, that's the way to go, one less thing to worry about and it ties into another OSS project. Dreambeam already has it set up that way - so it is doable...