Thanks everyone for all the helpful hints! Much appreciated :)

On Thu, Aug 3, 2023 at 10:35 PM Mike Rylander <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 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 and, while the fine details and stock configuration are out of date,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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> Mike Rylander
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> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 8:58 AM Thomas Guignard
> <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > 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
>