[FR] Indexing on authors to centralize author declaration

[ma-riviere]

Hi,

A useful feature for people with many articles/posts sharing multiple authors would be to declare a central list of authors and be able to reference them from individual pages, in a similar fashion to affiliations:

_authors.yml

authors:
  - id: author1
    name: ...
    affiliations:
       - ref: lab1
  - id: author2
    name: ...
    affiliations:
      - ref: lab1
 
affiliations:
  - id: lab1
    name: ...

my_pub.qmd

title: ...

metadata-files: [_authors.yml]

author:
  - ref: author1

Thanks !

Discussed in #4630

^{Originally posted by ma-riviere March 5, 2023}
Hi,

Is there a way to have a centralized list of authors as a standalone file that can then be imported in multiple .qmd files, but only have a selection of those authors listed in each .qmd ?

Example:

_authors.yml

authors:
  - id: author1
    name: ...
    affiliations:
       - ref: lab1
  - id: author2
    name: ...
    affiliations:
      - ref: lab1
 
affliliations:
  - id: lab1
    name: ...

my_pub.qmd

title: ...

metadata-files: [_authors.yml]

# This part gets completely ignored
author:
  - ref: author1

If I do the above, it will list all the authors referenced in _authors.yml in each .qmd file importing _authors_yml. Is there a way to specify which authors of that central author list I want to see displayed in a specific file ? (the same way we can reference affiliations)

Useful info:

• Website project (outputting to HTML)
• Quarto v1.3.242 on Ubuntu 22.04

Thank you

[lorenzoFabbri]

I am also interested in this. Moreover, it would be nice to be able to change the order of the authors in each manuscript.

[maelle]

Unsure whether a new issue is needed: it'd be nice to also be able to store an URL by author, in blogs for instance. This way in the blog metadata in each post, the author name could be a link to that URL.