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Every ActivePaper should contain information about its authors. The question is how this should be handled. Are there existing standards that could be leveraged?
Author identity: an ORCID identifier would useful for this. But is it reasonable to require every author to have an ORCID?
Author contribution: the traditional linear order of author names causes lots of problems, so abandoning it for something else is probably a good idea. But which something else? A percentage? A "type of contribution" field? A fractional credit system as proposed here?
See also this blog post for background information.