Das Relevance Ranking in BOSS basiert auf zwei Dingen:

a) dem (Solr-)Index und wie dort indexiert wurde

b) der Art wie BOSS diesen Index anspricht.

Beides ist hochkonfigurierbar.

a) Solr-Index

BOSS benutzt verschiedene (Solr)-Indexe:

Bei jedem Index können die suchbaren Felder anders heißen und anders indexiert sein.

b) BOSS-Ranking für den GVI

Gewichtung der Felder

Jede Suche in einem Feld der BOSS-Oberfläche führt zu einer Suche in mehreren Solr-Feldern, die in unterschiedlichen Indexen unterschiedlich gewichtet werden und somit den Ranking-Score unterschiedlich stark beeinflussen.
Bei der Suche in "Alle Felder" (die Defaulteinstellung) sehen die Gewichtungen so aus:

title_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 250]
author_norm:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 250]
author_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 150]
- [and, 100]
subject_worktitle_facet:
- [and, 100]
subject_topic_facet:
- [onephrase, 500]
subject_geogname_facet:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
subject_persname_facet:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
subject_corpname_facet:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
subject_meetname_facet:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
subject_genre_facet:
- [onephrase, 300]
subject_chrono_facet:
- [onephrase, 100]
subject_all_unstemmed:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
subject_all_norm:
- [and, 70]
- [onephrase, 100]
musical_presentation:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
musical_cast:
- [and, 100]
- [onephrase, 150]
allfields:
- [and, 10]
publisher:
- [and, 50]
summary:
- [and, 10]
issn:
- [onephrase, ~]
isbn:
- [onephrase, ~]
isbn_related:
- [onephrase, ~]
other_id:
- [otherid, 300]
0:
0:
- OR
- 50
title_short:
- [onephrase, 750]
title_full_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 600]
- [and, 500]
title_full:
- [onephrase, 400]
title:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 250]
title_alt:
- [and, 200]
title_new:
- [and, 100]
series:
- [and, 50]
series2:
- [and, 30]
author:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 250]
author_fuller:
- [onephrase, 150]
- [and, 125]
author2:
- [and, 50]
author_additional:
- [and, 50]
publisher:
- [and, 20]
contents:
- [and, 10]
topic_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 550]
- [and, 500]
geographic:
- [onephrase, 300]
genre:
- [onephrase, 300]
spelling:
- [and, 10]
allfields:
- [and, 10]
fulltext_unstemmed:
- [and, 10]
fulltext:
- [and, ~]
description:
- [and, ~]
isbn:
- [onephrase, ~]
issn:
- [onephrase, ~]
    0:
0:
- OR
- 50
title_sort:
- [onephrase, 500]
title_short:
- [onephrase, 1000]
title_full_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 1000]
- [and, 500]
title_full:
- [onephrase, 400]
title:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 250]
title_alt:
- [and, 200]
title_new:
- [and, 100]
title_orig:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 400]
series:
- [onephrase, 300]
- [and, 100]
series2:
- [and, 30]
series_orig:
- [onephrase, 200]
- [and, 100]
author:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 250]
author_fuller:
- [onephrase, 150]
- [and, 125]
author_ref:
- [onephrase, 250]
- [and, 250]
- [or, 250]
author_orig:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 250]
author2_orig:
- [and, 50]
author_corporate_orig:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 400]
author_corporate2_orig:
- [and, 50]
author_corporate:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 400]
author2:
- [and, 50]
author_additional:
- [and, 50]
author_corporate2:
- [and, 50]
contents:
- [and, 10]
topic_unstemmed:
- [onephrase, 55]
- [and, 50]
topic:
- [onephrase, 50]
topic_ref:
- [onephrase, 10]
- [and, 5]
- [or, 5]
topic_id:
- [onephrase, 50]
- [and, 25]
   allfields:
- [or, ~]
fulltext:
- [or, ~]
rvk_label:
- [onephrase, 500]
- [and, 250]
- [or, 250]
isbn:
- [onephrase, 500]
issn:
- [onephrase, 500]
ismn:
- [onephrase, 500]
imprint:
- [onephrase, 500]