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 person.

`company`

Name of the company the person is affiliated with.

`companyURL`

url of the company.

`w3cid`

For W3C documents, an identifier of the persons’ W3C account. This id can be found in my profile URL that will be redirected to the user’s page; the id appears in the address bar (e.g., https://www.w3.org/users/12345).

`orcid`

Identifier or full URL of the persons' ORCID account. This can be a URL or the ORCID.

`retiredDate`

The date in which an person has retired from working on a specification. The format is yyyy-mm-dd.

`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"
    }
  ]
};