Indexing Metadata in Hyrax

Reference:

Solr: https://solr.apache.org/guide/6_6/index.html

Solr schema with the dynamic field definitions (based on prefixes).

Connecting the schema dynamic field prefixes to field descriptors in Hyrax

The default indexing descriptors used in Hyrax is defined in the link below

https://github.com/samvera/active_fedora/blob/511ee837cd9a461021e53d5e20f362b634de39a8/lib/active_fedora/indexing/default_descriptors.rb

A few additional descriptors in the basic metadata indexer

We use this knowledge to decide on how we want the value for a property to be treated in Solr

• Search on it (index in solr terms, searchable in hyrax desacriptor)
• Retrieve the value as it was added (Stored)
• Need to be able to facet on it (group search results by this category, example. keyword, creator) (facetable)
• Need to be able to do date range queries - dateable