[Rivet] Inspire keys

[Andy Buckley]

On 08/06/11 22:43, Frank Siegert wrote:
> On 08/06/11 23:36, Andy Buckley wrote:
>> On 08/06/11 11:09, David Grellscheid wrote:
>>> Hi everyone,
>>>
>>> have you noticed that Inspire uses different keys for the papers? It's
>>> still possible to search for a legacy SPIRES key using "find key ...",
>>> but it is not possible to obtain a legacy key from Inspire's records, as
>>> they keep that field hidden throughout.
>>>
>>> Try SPIRES key 8924791. Inspire lists it as 882984.
>>
>> Yes, I'd seen that before. I believe Frank S was also in touch with them
>> about it, something like a year ago... I guess they didn't like the
>> suggestion.
>
> I contacted them mainly to be able to search for a given Spires key, and
> that they implemented after my email (as David mentioned).
>
> Now to get the Spires key from an Inspire record it seems like you have
> to look at the MarcXML output:
> http://inspirebeta.net/record/847552/export/xm
>
> Might be worth contacting them to find out whether that can be made
> available more easily, and more importantly whether that key is going to
> be assigned anymore once Spires goes out of production! Otherwise we
> should reconsider our ID scheme for Rivet 2.0.

Isn't it lucky that we put an "S" in front of the SPIRES key? We can 
conceivably change the scheme to an "I" for any new analyses. We'll need 
to update the internal metadata API to have a less prescriptive method 
than spiresId(), though.

Certainly now is a good time to start thinking about it...

Andy

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