Re: [Treebase-devel] Understanding OAI-PMH Verbs

[William P. <wil...@ya...>]

On May 11, 2011, at 8:24 PM, Carl Boettiger wrote:

> hmm, I don't think I have the right adjective, seems that "after"
> gives me the whole of treebase independent of the date.  Same with
> "since" Can I look up the vocabulary somewhere?

the mot juste in OAI lingo is "from".  I just added this example to the wiki:

http://treebase.org/treebase-web/top/oai?verb=ListRecords&metadataPrefix=oai_dc&from=2011-04-30T00:00:00Z

> So I guess the only way to query by author date is to pull the
> metadata for all studies and filter from there?  Fine for treebase at
> it's current size I suppose...

I also wish the phylows API had the ability to search by publication year.  Alas, not yet. 

bp