Search Questions and Variables

Search in SND’s collection by specifying a search words. It is possible to search in all metadata fields.

• A search for election data is equivalent to election + data. (AND-search)
• A search for election | data will give results matching election OR data. (OR-search)
• Add a + in front of words and phrases that must occur. +newspaper read means the text must include the word newspaper and may include the word read.
• Add a - in front of words and phrases that should not occur in the text.
• Use a wildcard (*) like news* to specify unknown number of characters after the word.
• If you want to search for a phrase (multiple words), use quotes: "election manifestos".
• You can also do a proximity search. "read newspaper"~10 means that the words "read" and "newspaper" must occur within 10 words of each other.
• For a fuzzy search (words similar to the search term), add a tilde plus 'N' (~N) character at the end, as in newspaper~5 where N signifies edit distance (fuzzines).

Leading wildcard characters (*,?, and ~) as well as leading periods is not supported and will be ignored.