Enable clicking on authors in the dataset header to view more information about them

[robyngit]

Once we've implemented issue #264, then enhance the display of the dataset landing pages by adding the ability to click on each author listed in the header to view more information about them. This new feature will make it easier for users to learn about the creators of the dataset without having to scroll down to the bottom of the page. It will also free up space on the landing pages, which can be overwhelmingly long, especially when there are many authors (For example, the dataset with 46 authors)

The author information can be displayed in a modal, tooltip, or similar UI element. This is a common pattern used by online journals and so will likely be more intuitive for users.

Here are a few examples from the wild:

Tooltip when author is clicked

Cancer

The Lancet

Nature

Sidebar when author is clicked

Science

[sammaji]

Can I work on this issue?

[mbjones]

@robyngit Glad to see this ticket. It would be great to implement. If we have an ORCID, things are in good shape. But, some background...

For a long time we've talked about also linking creators on metadata landing pages to their user profiles with a list of all of their datasets. The main challenge has been disambiguating and normalizing the list of creators when insufficient info is provided in dataset metadata. We typically only get an ORCID for the submitter of a dataset, and not the other creators. For example, given just the creator with surname Jones, it would be ambiguous who this refers to. Including a first name helps but still isn't very reliable (Jones, Matt) because of name reuse, nicknames, and spelling variants (Matthew, Mathew). It gets much more concrete once we have an email address (jones@nceas.ucsb.edu) or ORCID. At that point, we probably know we have a known individual, but still would need to map multiple variants together (e.g., that Jones, Matt with email jones@nceas.ucsb.edu is the same person as Jones, Matthew B. with ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0077-4738). We've been trying to build this people-mapping service across the DataONE system using graph databases with a reasonably high degree of success. And we've written up some of the issues to consider in slinky issue #6. That issue includes a link to the d1lod and slinky design documents on disambiguating people and organizations. Happy to discuss further.

And @samyabrata-maji , we welcome open source participation in our projects. Let us know what you might be able to contribute to, and we'd be happy to discuss in this and other issue discussions. See CONTRIBUTING.md for details of how to contribute.

[robyngit]

Thank you, @mbjones, for providing useful background information! I created a new issue (#2098) to address disambiguating creators and linking to their associated profile pages. For now, we can add a profile link for any authors who have an associated ORCID in the EML. Otherwise, this task is just to complete the first step in improving the creator display: moving the information we already have in the EML (such as organization, position, email, etc.) from the "People and Associated Parties" section to the creator popup element.