Complex search examples
Here are some examples of complex searches to show how specific your search can be.
Examples
object_type:magazine -name:Jugendstil
This example will search 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
This example will search 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)
This example will search for records that contain both Greek and vase in one record or both Roman and vase in one record.
(design OR art) AND german
This example will search for records that contain the term German and must also contain design or art as well.
object_number:("1999.1" "1999.5" "2006.5")
This example will search for a list of discrete object numbers.
object_number:["1999.001" TO "1999.003"]
This example will search 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"
This example will search for a range of object numbers and exclude some specific numbers.
name:("blue sky" "white horse" "black bear")
This example will search for records with the Name/Title field containing any of series of text phrases.
