What happened to the data dictionaries in the documentation?
Jason Augustyn
Friedman, Jason
If you’re missing something, I’m missing the same thing. I mentioned earlier that we lost a warning on the author_is_corresponding field without explanation, and I still don’t know what the status is.
Jason Friedman, BA,
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The new documentation appears to have lost all details on what the various fields in the data represent. Instead, it is now just API documentation. For example, what does locations.landing_page_url on works represent? What options are possible for the type field? Not having this information makes it exceedingly difficult to use the data.
Am I missing something?
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