[API-users] Dataset contacts

[Markus Döring]

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 at 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/contact
> 
> 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/contact
> 
> Is that intended? Or is it leftovers from the old registry?
> 
> Cheers,
> Jörg
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