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:
Many thanks,
Markus
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
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