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Find the advanced search feature
She entered the search term “painting fruit 18th century” on the home page, which brought her to the search results. From here, she found the advanced search easily.
Use it to conduct one of your regular searches
She started deleting words from her original search, and adding them to the advanced search query builder. First, she deleted “fruit” and then added a query with FIELD = “Subject”; MODIFIER = “contains”; and SEARCH TERM = “fruit”. This yielded relatively few results, so she tried FIELD = Description“Description”. This yielded more results.
She was unclear of what some of the FIELDS mean; for example, what is the difference between Date, Year, Creation date, Issued date, Temporal, etc.?
Try different combinations of the search bar + advanced search query builder + search filters and compare the results
She discovered (through prompts from me) that the Date field doesn’t respond well to “18th”, and is better with “18” (numbers only). She also discovered that the Medium field didn’t work well with the term “painting”, so it was better to leave “painting” in the main search bar at the top of the page.
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