<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=us-ascii"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;">Steve,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div>I guess we have far too long been thinking about triplets and just forgot about good and simple occurrenceIDs.</div><div><br></div><div>I have opened an issue and hope we can add it to the search parameters rather sooner than later:</div><div><a href="http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2337">http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2337</a></div><div><br></div><div>Many thanks,</div><div>Markus</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On 24 Jul 2014, at 13:52, Steve Baskauf <<a href="mailto:steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu">steve.baskauf@vanderbilt.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite">Both I and the programmer I'm working with have looked through the API <br>documentation and we don't see occurrenceID as a search parameter. That <br>surprised me, since I thought it was a required field. If we could <br>search for it, we could map any assigned occurrenceID to the GBIFID. <br>I'm sure that there is probably some more indirect way to accomplish <br>this (such as retrieving all records that we have provided, but it seems <br>like this ought to be a simple thing to facilitate. Am I missing something?<br><br>Steve<br><br>-- <br>Steven J. Baskauf, Ph.D., Senior Lecturer<br>Vanderbilt University Dept. of Biological Sciences<br><br>postal mail address:<br>PMB 351634<br>Nashville, TN 37235-1634, U.S.A.<br><br>delivery address:<br>2125 Stevenson Center<br>1161 21st Ave., S.<br>Nashville, TN 37235<br><br>office: 2128 Stevenson Center<br>phone: (615) 343-4582, fax: (615) 322-4942<br>If you fax, please phone or email so that I will know to look for it.<br><a href="http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu">http://bioimages.vanderbilt.edu</a><br>http://vanderbilt.edu/trees<br><br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>API-users mailing list<br>API-users@lists.gbif.org<br>http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users<br><br></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>