And I need to add more fields to the search filter, itself. It currently just filters for title, but it should also do author, the three dates, date ranges, tags, a bit of fuzzy and absolute logic, normalization of terms, etc.

And I need to handle sorting cases where a publication has multiple authors. I think it's just displaying the first in the array, or set of tags, and I don't know how to include the others in the sort. Or if I should just ignore them and they have to be found over the search bar.

We have some like

["author", "John Smith", "Tony Stuart"]

and some like

["author", "John Smith"]

["author", "Tony Stuart"]

Both seem valid, to me, but in both cases, I just use John in sorting.