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Thanks Chanty.

On Tue, 1 Aug 2023 at 16:12, Olson, Jennifer <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Hi Thomas--
>
> You might want to take a look at the Music Library Association Music
> Discovery Requirements website.
> https://www.musiclibraryassoc.org/BlankCustom.asp?page=mdr_es
>
> It is fairly specialized and geared towards library systems rather than
> general search engines but I think it's an excellent example of how to
> write up the specs, and when specs work for music, they work for pretty
> much everything.
>
> Jen
>
> Jennifer Olson (she/her)
> Technical Services Librarian
> Allen Library
> University of Hartford
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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
>


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