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PaceClarifyAuthorContributor


Abstract

Allow multiple authors. Clarify relationship between atom:author and atom:contributor.

Status

Open

Rationale

The current draft only allows one atom:author per entry, meaning either: - All authors of a document have to be shoehorned into that atom:author element - One author has to be chosen as primary and the rest are "contributors"

Secondly, no explicit relationship is given between author and contributor atom:contributor. The most intuitive approach, and that outlined in this pace, is that each person involved should only appear in one role (as an author, or as a contributor). Also, for the sake of making processing at the display end easier, each person should only be mentioned once.

Notes

Neither bylines nor inheritance are dealt with by this Pace.

Proposal

In 4.1.1, replace:

with:

Remove:

In 4.1.2, replace:

With:

Remove:

In section 4.2.3, append to:

The text:

Impacts

Listing several people in a single atom:author element and then crediting them individually as atom:contributors is consciously barred by this pace, in anticipation that a separate byline element may be introduced if the functionality is required.


See Also: PaceAuthorContributor

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