Create an Author model for datasets

[pierrepo]

Currently, authors are represented in the Dataset model as a author_names field:

    author_names: list[str] | None = Field(
        None,
        description="List of author or contributor names.",
    )

We may need to create a dedicated Authors model with the following fields:

class Author(BaseModel):
    """Author of dataset or publication."""

    first_name: str | None = Field(None, description="Author first name.")
    last_name: str | None = Field(None, description="Author last name.")
    full_name: str | None = Field(None, description="Author full name.")
    orcid: str | None = Field(None, description="ORCID.")

The full_name field could be computed from first_name and last_name if is not defined.

Review of current APIs:

• The Zenodo API provides full name and orcid (when possible).
• The Figshare API provides full name, first name, last name and orcid (when possible).
• The NOAMD API provides full name and an identifier that lead to first name, last name and affiliation through the /users/{user_id} end point.

[Essmaw]

It would be useful to also include the affiliation (we currently get it via the GROUPS field in the Mdposit API, but it’s lost).

[pierrepo]

Yes. Excellente idea!