person

Person

A person object (used for editors, authors) contains the following fields (most of the fields are straightforward). Only the name property is required.

{
  name: "Ben De Meester",
  company: "Ghent University - iMinds - Data Science Lab",
  companyURL: "https://www.iminds.be/",
  url: "https://users.ugent.be/~bjdmeest/",
  orcid: "0000-0003-0248-0987",
  w3cid: "00000"
};

`name`

Name of the person

`url`

home page of the author

`company`

company name

`companyURL`

url of the company

`w3cid`

identifier of the persons’ W3C account, if applicable. (This id can be found through the “my profile” URL that will be redirected to the user’s page; the id appears in the address bar).

`orcid`

identifier or full URL of the persons' ORCID account.

`retiredDate`

indicates the date in which an editor has retired from editing a specification. The format is yyyy-mm-dd. Additionally, if a person object is under `editors` and contains `retiredDate`, it will be automatically moved to `formerEditors`.

`note`

any text in this field will appear at the end of the person’s identification in parenthesis

`extras`

Refers to an array of extras (see below) objects, displayed at the end of the person's identification

`mailto` (**deprecated**)

An email address. Please use url instead (e.g., `"url": "mailto:"`)

Extras

The “extras” are objects, with the following fields:

`name` (required)

The content of the resulting `span`; this can contain html elements

`class`

A CSS class value (can be used for styling)

`href`

Optionally, a hyperlink.

{
  name: "Ben De Meester",
  extras: [
    {
      name: "Some custom thing",
      href: "https://example.com/",
      class: "css-class-value"
    }
  ]
};