Hi Thomas,

The Evergreen ILS's search grammar is fairly well documented at
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=documentation:technical:search_grammar
and, while the fine details and stock configuration are out of date,
that should serve to explain how we treat different parts of a
complicated search query.  For a bit of backend detail on how
Evergreen goes about indexing bib data you can look at
https://wiki.evergreen-ils.org/doku.php?id=documentation:indexing but
that is only a very small part of search indexing these days, as many
new features and functionality have been added since that was written.

HTH,

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On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:58 AM Thomas Guignard
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>
> Hello
>
> I'm looking for examples of functional requirements/specifications for
> search engines for a project that I'm working on. The aim is to provide web
> developers with a reference as to how search should function, what fields
> in a database should be queried, how to handle wildcards, stop words,
> operators, etc.
>
> If someone has examples of something like this that they've used in the
> past, or of general specs that can be used as a starting point for our
> project, that would be much appreciated.
>
> Many thanks in advance!
> Thomas