Steve, it is embarrassing, but we really have forgotten to provide that search filter in the API. Internally we obviously have means to lookup records by their occurrenceID, but they were not made public. I guess we have far too long been thinking about triplets and just forgot about good and simple occurrenceIDs.
I have opened an issue and hope we can add it to the search parameters rather sooner than later: http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2337 Many thanks, Markus On 24 Jul 2014, at 13:52, Steve Baskauf <steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu> wrote: > Both I and the programmer I'm working with have looked through the API > documentation and we don't see occurrenceID as a search parameter. That > surprised me, since I thought it was a required field. If we could > search for it, we could map any assigned occurrenceID to the GBIFID. > I'm sure that there is probably some more indirect way to accomplish > this (such as retrieving all records that we have provided, but it seems > like this ought to be a simple thing to facilitate. Am I missing something? > > Steve > > -- > Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer > Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences > > postal mail address: > PMB 351634 > Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A. > > delivery address: > 2125 Stevenson Center > 1161 21st Ave., S. > Nashville, TN 37235 > > office: 2128 Stevenson Center > phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 322-4942 > If you fax, please phone or email so that I will know to look for it. > http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu > http://vanderbilt.edu/trees > > > > _______________________________________________ > API-users mailing list > API-users at lists.gbif.org > http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.gbif.org/pipermail/api-users/attachments/20140724/d9188c4d/attachment.html
