diff --git a/scripts/add_entity_copyfields.sh b/scripts/add_entity_copyfields.sh
index b8a300ad..5cab3e77 100755
--- a/scripts/add_entity_copyfields.sh
+++ b/scripts/add_entity_copyfields.sh
@@ -33,6 +33,17 @@ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
     }
 }' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
 
+# Add a dynamic field for the grounding field type
+
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
+    "add-dynamic-field": {
+        "name": "*_grounding",
+        "type": "grounding",
+        "indexed": true,
+        "stored": false,
+        "multiValued": true,
+    }
+}' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
 
 # now add copyfields declarations for name, symbol and synonym
 
@@ -52,6 +63,13 @@ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
     }
 }' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
 
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
+    "add-copy-field": {
+        "source": "name",
+        "dest": "name_grounding"
+    }
+}' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
+
 # symbol
 
 curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
@@ -68,6 +86,13 @@ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
     }
 }' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
 
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
+    "add-copy-field": {
+        "source": "symbol",
+        "dest": "symbol_grounding"
+    }
+}' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
+
 # synonym
 
 curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
@@ -84,6 +109,13 @@ curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
     }
 }' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
 
+curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
+    "add-copy-field": {
+        "source": "synonym",
+        "dest": "synonym_grounding"
+    }
+}' http://localhost:8983/solr/entity/schema
+
 # taxon label
 
 curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' --data-binary '{
diff --git a/scripts/add_fieldtypes.sh b/scripts/add_fieldtypes.sh
index 678d1147..085392cc 100755
--- a/scripts/add_fieldtypes.sh
+++ b/scripts/add_fieldtypes.sh
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@ for core in entity association
 do
   curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d @scripts/text-fieldtype.json http://localhost:8983/solr/$core/schema
   curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d @scripts/autocomplete-fieldtype.json http://localhost:8983/solr/$core/schema
+  curl -X POST -H 'Content-type:application/json' -d @scripts/grounding-fieldtype.json http://localhost:8983/solr/$core/schema
 done
diff --git a/scripts/grounding-fieldtype.json b/scripts/grounding-fieldtype.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4b5489be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/grounding-fieldtype.json
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+{
+  "add-field-type": {
+    "name": "grounding",
+    "class": "solr.TextField",
+    "positionIncrementGap": "100",
+    "analyzer": {
+      "tokenizer": {
+        "class": "solr.KeywordTokenizerFactory"
+      },
+      "filters": [
+        { "class": "solr.LowerCaseFilterFactory" }
+      ]
+    }
+  }
+}