You may be interested in jams ?

Dear reader,

author lists are a pillar of scholarly communication and rewarding system.
On the other hand, the number of tools to create scholarly outputs requiring an author list is growing exponentially,
with software and dataset being published on top of research manuscripts.
Each system gets its own author information entry (and export) points, and they are not talking to each other.

**We would like to create a common, open standard that could be used as a transfer point between the different formats,
and build tools to transform the metadata from one format to the other.**

We are biased toward markdown-based documents, i.e. yaml-formatted metadata,
but we are hoping to get more use cases and input from YOU.

We are using Github for asynchronous work, while we try to meet regularly in online meetings.
We also have a mailing list: https://www.listserv.dfn.de/sympa/info/jamschema

Julien Colomb, on behalf of the Jams team.

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Github home: https://github.com/jam-schema/jams

Poke:
rrtools: @benmarwick @nevrome @wolass @annakrystalli
manubot: @dhimmel @epogrebnyak
joss: @arfon @danielskatz @karthik @cMadan @xuanxu @kyleniemeyer @parrish @labarba @Kevin-Mattheus-Moerman
zettlr: @nathanlesage @tobiasdiez @Wieke @Aigeruth
rticles and Ropensci: @sckott @cboettig @yihui @jjallaire @hadley

Start with the proposed Jams standard in this issue and review the Jams GitHub home linked in the body. Consult the mailing list and referenced projects for additional use cases and existing author-list formats. Done would require an agreed common metadata standard and transformation tools, but the issue does not define their scope.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.