Multiple Roles for Coauthors

[ctgraham]

My first reaction is that the OJS roles ought to map against OJS permissions, and so the concept of CRediT roles is distinct from this. Until now, I’ve been thinking of these as metadata attached to the Author / Coauthor records, as opposed to OJS roles. Perhaps you have additional thoughts on this.

There is a bit of additional discussion here, with a link to additional discussion on GitHub:

CRediT Integration with OJS

I am also interested in this work. There is a Feature Request in GitHub which also discusses this. https://github.com/pkp/pkp-lib/issues/857 Feel free to comment here or on that GitHub issue with your specific use-cases. If we get a clearly defined specification and significant community interest around this, this helps with prioritizing implementation. One of the current blockers for me is thinking about how the CRediT contributor roles map (or don’t) upon other taxonomies, such as the Cro…

We would be very interested in your input.