Thanks for the explanation, Markus! Cheers, Jörg Von: Markus Döring [mailto:mdoering@gbif.org] Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014 14:19 An: Holetschek, Jörg Cc: api-users@lists.gbif.org; GBIF Developers Developers Betreff: Re: [API-users] Dataset contacts Hi Jörg, this is intended behavior. These contacts are rendered as associate parties in the portal project block: http://www.gbif.org/dataset/570489ac-e114-4a17-9340-2e01ee7d9ee3 The contact type is not required. And even though we try to have a primary administrative contact that is also not a requirement. But in this specific case our tapir "metadata synchronisation" could be a bit more clever and detect the type. Markus On 10 Jul 2014, at 11:18, Holetschek, Jörg <j.holetschek@bgbm.org<mailto:j.holetschek@bgbm.org>> wrote: Hi guys, I'm using the API to get dataset metadata from the registry (http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/dataset). Each dataset entry has a 'contact' element, which is a list of contacts. Usually, each contact has a certain type. In the given example in the documentation, there are two contacts, each of type ADMINISTRATIVE_POINT_OF_CONTACT: http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/dataset/4fa7b334-ce0d-4e88-aaae-2e0c138d049e/contac... However, paging through the datasets, I hit contacts that somehow look different. For example, they don't have a type, which breaks a script if you want to find the primary administrative contact, for example: http://api.gbif.org/v0.9/dataset/570489ac-e114-4a17-9340-2e01ee7d9ee3/contac... Is that intended? Or is it leftovers from the old registry? Cheers, Jörg ---//------------------------------------------------------------ Jörg Holetschek Coordinator Biodiversity Data Networks Botanic Garden & Botanical Museum Berlin-Dahlem Dept. Biodiversity Informatics Königin-Luise-Str. 6-8, D-14195 Berlin +49 (0)30 838-50150, j.holetschek@bgbm.org<mailto:j.holetschek@bgbm.org> ------------------------------------------------------------//--- _______________________________________________ API-users mailing list API-users@lists.gbif.org<mailto:API-users@lists.gbif.org> http://lists.gbif.org/mailman/listinfo/api-users