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Documentation of the INSPIRE REST API
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Finding articles by old SPIRES ID code #7

Closed agbuckley closed 4 years ago

agbuckley commented 4 years ago

I'm updating the Rivet toolkit helper programs to use the new API (they are currently pointing at old.inspirehep.net, which is not sustainable) and since old analyses in our collection -- from before Inspire existed -- are named with the old SPIRES database key, we ideally need to be able to query by this as well.

Digging in an example record, I found SPIRES IDs referenced in the external_system_identifiers list, e.g. {"schema":"SPIRES","value":"SPIRES-8924791"} Is this something that can also be searched on?

michamos commented 4 years ago

Yes, you can search on any field in metadata, as explained here. In this case, you could use external_system_identifiers.value:SPIRES-8924791.

agbuckley commented 4 years ago

Ah, excellent: I was hoping to use it as a unique key like the doi, literature, arxiv ones, but it's understandable that you don't want that up-front. I now have this working as a 2-stage search to get the Inspire ID, and then look it up like a "native" Inspire key. Thanks! Just one comment: the two levels of hits keys in the search result is a bit surprising, but not insurmountable.