Magnetics Information Consortium -- MagIC
Public Web Services

In an effort to constantly improve the availability of the archived data to the scientific and educational community, MagIC is providing several public Web Services. The two output formats currently supported are XML and tab-delimited plain text. The following links provide live examples of these services and insight into the data publically available through this convenient method.

XML Data

XML Search for a Location of "McMurdo"

Documentation

Both scripts take the same search arguments passed on the URL query string:

• String Search
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-xml.cgi?term_type=location&term=Antarctica&conjunction=AND&term_type=location_name&term=Admiralty
  The term_type argument can be "location_name", "region_name", "location" (which is functionally equivalent to "location_name" or "region_name"), or "er_citation_names". The conjunction can be "AND" or "AND NOT" spelled "AND%20NOT" in the URL-escaped argument. "OR" will be supported shortly after restructuring the server SQL calls.
  
  
• Geographic Bounding Box
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-tab.cgi?lat1=0&lat2=10&nshemi1=N&nshemi2=N&lon1=0&lon2=10&ewhemi1=E&ewhemi2=E
  The "lat1" and "lat2" can be "0.0" to "90.0", "nshemi1" and "nshemi2" can be "N" or "S", "lon1" and "lon2" can be "0.0" to "180.0", and "ewhemi1" and "ewhemi2" can be "E" or "W".
  
  
• Geological Range
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-xml.cgi?myrs1=350&myrs2=340
  The "myrs1" argument is the upper age limit in Ma and "myrs2" is the lower age limit in Ma.
  
  
• Data Type
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-tab.cgi?data_type=LT-CHEM&data_type=AE-H
  The "data_type" case-sensitive argument can be any one of the Method Codes defined by MagIC. Multiple "data_type" arguments are evaluated with a logical "OR".
  

The following arguments are used specifically for "drilling down" to more detailed data:

• Drill Level
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-tab.cgi?dl=site&loc_id=9301
  The "dl" argument can be "location" (default), "site", "sample", "specimen", or "measurement". If a drill level is provided, one or more IDs must also be provided to return any results. If the drill level is not specified, it is assumed to be "location".
  
  
• ID
  http://earthref.org/cgi-bin/w-pmag-xml.cgi?dl=specimen&sample_id=2074
  The ID argument can be called "loc_id", "site_id", "sample_id", "specimen_id", or "meas_id" based on which level the record ID belongs. Searching by a "site_id" with a "dl" set to "specimen" will provide all specimen data associated with the provided sample. Searching by an ID of a child, for example "specimen_id", on a parent level, for example, "sample" will currently return no results.