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in reply to Best way to aggregate many silos of data into a search form

Though Anonymous Monk has tried to save you from anyone giving you answers, I feel brave today. Prepare to be assaulted and have things forced down your throat. Idiomatically speaking, of course!

You want a search engine, look at Lucy (née KinoSearch) and the many related/collateral packages, especially those of KARMAN.

This is obviously not the only way and if you eventually decide you want more relational searching instead of raw Google-like document sifting with keys, you'll be sorry, but from your description, this is what I'd do.

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Good luck and if you go this road, I hope you have fun!