• The Labeler stores translations for all of a project’s labels in a Label Dictionary, providing consistency across maps and diagrams from multiple collections.
• When you first open a new map, for any labels not found in the dictionary, text will be proposed based on the project’s Term Renderings.
• The translation team should not merely accept or modify the proposed label. The goal is for both the label and the verse text to be consistent with the term rendering pattern.
• Most labels are associated with one or more placenames. For example, “Jericho”, or “Jebus (Jerusalem)”.
• Each placename is associated with one or more Biblical terms, each of which is associated with a set of Scripture references where the term is expected to be found. For example, Jericho is associated with a Hebrew term and a Greek term, and each of these is associated with particular verses. The Labeler allows you to treat these as a joined unit, ensuring that you use the same spelling for Jericho in both the Old Testament and the New Testament, a gap in the current Biblical Terms tool.
• Also stored with each label on each map is a setting of Sync, Override, or Omit.
• Sync means that if the dictionary value is later updated, this label should be updated, too.
• Override means that this label’s value is locked, unlinked from the dictionary value.
• Omit means that this label should be omitted from the map.
• Labels containing Scripture references (common on Biblica maps) can be auto-generated from the Paratext project’s Scripture Reference settings.
• The color-coded statuses will help to ensure that you’ve addressed inconsistencies. However, you are free to export and use labels no matter what status they have. You may have valid reasons not to match the label used for the same location on a different map. E.g. A place is labeled “Mizpah” on one map, but “Mizpah of Moab” on another. But the status will at least make you aware of the difference.

Multiple organizations may distribute collections of maps and other diagrams, and the Labeler will be able to work with any of them, as well as with custom, private collections.