Complex search examples

Here are some examples of complex searches to show how specific your search can be.

Examples

object_type:magazine -name:Jugendstil

Searches for records that have magazine in the Object type field and don't have Jugendstil in the Name/Title field.

object_type:magazine AND NOT name:Jugendstil

An alternative.

name:"pounamu sculpture"-5

Searches for records that contain these two terms within five positions of each other in the field you specify before the colon(:), in this case the Name/Title field.

(greek AND vase) OR (roman AND vase)

Searches for records that contain both Greek and vase in one record or both Roman and vase in one record.

(design OR art) AND german

Searches for records that contain the term German and must also contain design or art as well.

object_number:("1999.1" "1999.5" "2006.5")

Searches for a list of discrete object numbers.

object_number:["1999.001" TO "1999.003"]

Searches for a range of object numbers. This uses an alphabetic range, so if you're using numbers of varying length you may find unwanted matches. For example, 1999.0022 would be found in this example. You must use square brackets and the word TO must be capitalised.

object_number:["1999.001" TO "1999.003"] -object_number:"1999.0022" -object_number:"1999.0023"

Searches for a range of object numbers and excludes some specific numbers.

name:("blue sky" "white horse" "black bear")

Searches for records with the Name/Title field containing any of series of text phrases.

See also