Add filter to search for occurrence records by identifiers or occurrenceID

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Reporter: trobertson
Type: NewFeature
Summary: Add filter to search for occurrence records by identifiers or occurrenceID
Priority: Major
Resolution: Fixed
Status: Closed
Created: 2014-09-16 08:32:30.701
Updated: 2017-10-10 09:57:26.072
Resolved: 2017-10-10 09:57:26.043
        
Description: There appears no way to find this record using the occurrenceID:
  http://www.gbif.org/occurrence/1009849769

I propose we add a filter to support generic search by "identifier" where identifier might be catalogue number, occurrenceID etc.

Alternatively we should add occurrenceID at the very least, now they are becoming more useful thanks to the IPT mandating them.

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Author: mdoering@gbif.org
Comment: There has been a *huge* demand for retrieving records by their occurrenceID in the TDWG 2014 identifiers workshop
Created: 2014-10-27 09:33:19.968
Updated: 2014-10-27 09:33:19.968

Author: trobertson@gbif.org
Comment: 40% of records have them
Created: 2014-10-27 09:34:05.277
Updated: 2014-10-27 09:34:05.277

Author: peterdesmet
Comment: Yes please! We are using occurrenceID as the primary identifier for our observation datasets, and have started removing the previously required collectionCode and catalogNumber (which always were an odd fit for observations) for older datasets. The only downside so far as they we wouldn't search records through the portal.
Created: 2014-12-01 13:18:07.28
Updated: 2014-12-01 13:18:07.28

Author: sant
Created: 2017-03-05 17:05:51.796
Updated: 2017-03-05 17:05:51.796
        
Now both of these queries work:

http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/1009849769
http://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/search?occurrenceId=KJ740159

Perhaps somebody should close this issue?