[API-users] Dataset contacts

["Holetschek, Jörg"]

Thanks for the explanation, Markus!

Cheers,
Jörg

Von: Markus Döring [mailto:mdoering at gbif.org]
Gesendet: Donnerstag, 10. Juli 2014 14:19
An: Holetschek, Jörg
Cc: api-users at 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 at bgbm.org<mailto: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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