This is a Stencila Schema specialization of schema.org Role for authorship.

It exists to represent not just who contributed to a work, but how they contributed and in what format or editing context. This supports richer provenance, attribution, and contribution tracking than a flat list of authors alone.

Key properties include author, roleName, format, and lastModified.

Analogues

The following external types, elements, or nodes are similar to a AuthorRole:

schema.org Role: Direct schema.org source pattern, specialized by Stencila for authorship and contribution provenance.

CRediT contributor role assertion: Approximate analogue for attributed contributor roles, though Stencila additionally records author identity, format, and modification metadata in one node.

Properties

The AuthorRole type has these properties:

Name	Description	Type	Inherited from
`author`	The entity acting as an author.	`AuthorRoleAuthor`	-
`roleName`	The role played by the author.	`AuthorRoleName`	-
`format`	The format that the author used to perform the role. e.g. Markdown, Python	`String`	-
`lastModified`	Timestamp of most recent modification, by the author, in the role.	`Timestamp`	-
`id`	The identifier for this item.	`String`	`Entity`