[Treebase-devel] phyloWS searches

[Arlin S. <ar...@um...>]

Hello, all.  I have some newbie questions about how to use phyloWS to  
get counts of studies in TreeBASE from the publication year 2010, from  
specific journals.    I could not search for a year using the web  
interface-- with no field restriction, searching in citation gives  
inconsistent results.

Is prism.publicationDate the right field? Using phyloWS with  
publicationDate=="2010" gives an untrapped exception error.

So, then I looked at the API page (http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/treebase/index.php?title=API 
) and noticed the thing with specifying the exact date and time.  I  
found that I could use phyloWS to search for anything later that the  
last second of 2009:

  http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html?query=prism.publicationDate 
 >"2009-12-31T23:59:59Z"

but this yielded studies with publication dates in 2009.  Is that a  
bug or am I missing something here?

When I tried to combine search terms, like this:

http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html?query=prism.publicationDate 
 >"2009-12-31T23:59:59Z"&prism. publicationDate <"2011-01-01T00:00:00Z"

or this

http://treebase.org/treebase-web/search/studySearch.html?query=prism.publicationDate 
 >"2009-12-31T23:59:59Z"&prism.publicationName=="Evolution"

the results suggest that the second term is being ignored.

Arlin
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