We welcome contributions to our course materials. If your contributions become substantial, you may be added as an author. We currently have no hard rule about what constitues sufficient work for an authorship. If you think you should be an author on one of our courses, please get in touch.
We also acknowledge smaller contributions under the Acknowledgements section of the course front page.
We use the Citation File Format (CFF) to keep information about authorship in our materials. Although this format is primarily designed for software and data, we adopted it following The Carpentries training community.
Each repository has a CITATION.cff file, which is used to automatically populate the course front page with citation format and author information.
Unfortunately, at the present the CFF format schema does not allow adding an author “role” (see here). As a workaround, we use the author alias entry to record this information.
We don’t have a formal ontology for author roles, although we take inspiration from CRT and DataCite.
We use the author website entry to indicate corresponding authors.