michamos
commented
4 years ago We're currently investigating whether adding an OAI-PMH API to the new platform. As we only had a handful of regular users of it on the old website, it's not certain we'll add it. Could you tell us more about your use-case? there might be a better way to replicate it with the API.
The date keyword looks at all dates in the record metadata, not modification date. So changing, say, only the references wouldn't affect it as it doesn't change any of the dates in the record. In principle, the du keyword (for "date-updated") can be used to filter on most recent modification date, but it's currently unreliable due to the frequent re-syncing with the old system that causes spurious modifications of records.
OTOH, the filtering of metadata responses has been requested often and we'll probably add it in the near-future.
steog88
I have few applications that use the OAI API (http://old.inspirehep.net/oai2d?verb=Identify) in order to get bulk downloads of recently modified records (I am mostly interested in articles, though). I was now wondering whether the OAI interface will be disabled once the new API will be fully operative, and how to use the new one to obtain only the records that were added or modified in some given time interval (two specific dates, let's say). Is that done through the "date" search keyword?
I also look forward to seeing a way to reduuce the metadata content in the new API response. The current one contains much more than what I need, in most of the cases. Actually, I think a first approach would be to allow users to simply exclude metadata from the output (id, creation date -- and possibly citation counts -- can be enough!), while a more powerful filtering of the schema may be implemented later.