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biodiversitydata-se / SBDI4R

R package to search and access data made available through the Swedish biodiversity data infrastructure SBDI
https://biodiversitydata-se.github.io/SBDI4R/
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
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search occurrences for a time period (from start time to end time) #1

Closed DeboraArlt closed 3 years ago

DeboraArlt commented 4 years ago

current possibilities to filter for time when searching/downloading occurrences: using the fq argument to specify e.g. year: fq=c("year:2010 OR year:2019") will return occurrences for 2010 and 2019. But if I want to have all data for a time period, e.g. from 2010-2019 I would have to list all those years. Worse if I wanted data from say 1 May 2011 to 31 December 2017. With current package functionality I cannot easily search for a time period starting from-date (or from-year) and ending to-date (or to-year), or? I can only download data and then filter afterwards. would limiting search to a time period become more easily possible with facet search?

aleruete commented 3 years ago

I could add a function that helps creating text for the query and then processing the result so it matches your will.

DA: ok, I think it would be really useful to be able to select occurrences for a time period (being able to specifiy e.g. year 1950-2010, and also 10 May 2003 - 23 October 2014)

aleruete commented 3 years ago

@DeboraArlt there is a possibility to use teh indexed field datum, but I find no way to retrieve any complete data to see the format. Otherwise, one can search by year and month (example added)

DeboraArlt commented 3 years ago

ok, searching using year and month is good enough for now.