Adding search facilities to humanities projects' web applications is a way to improve the quality and usability of those applications. Developing and implementing the search mechanisms can be a repetitive and time consuming task.

Ereuna is a configurable search framework, based on Apache Lucene, that allows for the rapid development of search facilities. The framework can be used with a wide range of source materials (XML, databases, etc.), it reduces the need for specific programming skills (specific knowledge of the Apache Lucene API), and is language independent - data is stored in UNICODE.

Ereuna is still in "beta" stage but is already being successfully used in various TEI based projects and in a database based project. Basically the framework works by applying an XSLT stylesheet to a set of provided XML documents. The resulting XML documents of that transformation are then indexed using Apache Lucene; searches can be performed once the index is created.

The poster will describe the functionality of the Ereuna search framework as a means to develop search facilities for humanities projects; it will also demonstrate the main benefits of using Ereuna