diff --git a/collection.xconf b/collection.xconf
index f3b1b6d4..730760a4 100644
--- a/collection.xconf
+++ b/collection.xconf
@@ -2,13 +2,16 @@
 <collection xmlns="http://exist-db.org/collection-config/1.0">
     <index xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
         <!-- Lucene index configuration -->
-        <lucene>
+        <lucene vector-store="db">
             <analyzer class="org.apache.lucene.analysis.standard.StandardAnalyzer"/>
             <text index="no" qname="persName">
                 <!-- start required facets and fields -->
                 <facet dimension="hsg-category" expression="'department'"/>
                 <facet dimension="hsg-publication" expression="'pocom'"/>
                 <field name="hsg-fulltext"/>
+                <vector-field name="hsg-embedding"
+                    dimension="384" similarity="cosine"
+                    embedding="local" model="all-MiniLM-L6-v2"/>
                 <field expression="'/departmenthistory/people/' || parent::person/id" name="hsg-url"/>
                 <!-- end required facets and fields -->
             </text>