[API-users] [External] occurrenceID as a search parameter

[Markus Döring]

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:
http://dev.gbif.org/issues/browse/POR-2337

Many thanks,
Markus




On 24 Jul 2014, at 13:52, Steve Baskauf <steve.baskauf at vanderbilt.edu> wrote:

> 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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