Parse author first/last name from myst metadata

[jo-mueller]

Hi all,

I'm not sure whether this is the right place to ask, feel free to forward or close if not. That being said: I am working on writing up a jupyter book (v2) for a specification document and would like to add all contributors as authors. The respective section in the myst.yml looks something like that:

authors:
  - id: some_name
    name: First Last
    affiliations:
      - whatever1
      - whatever2

Now, is it possible to somehow specify what exactly the first and the last names are? I would like to add a small piece of code to the build process that reads the metadata and produces a citation.cff file for upload to Zenodo. The problem is that the citation-file-format explicitly distinguishes first and last name as separate field. And if some authors have multiple last names (common in latin languages, dutch, etc) then it's impossible to find out from the name field alone how to do it.

Example: name: John Richard de la Sol cannot be parsed into First Last without additional info. I could of course write out the citation.cff file and add the metadata to the myst.yml on build, but I'd prefer the other way round.

Thanks in advance for the advice!

[rowanc1]

There is a way to export from the myst.yml to a citation.cff!

Add:

project:
  exports:
    - format: cff

And then:

jupyter book build --cff

This will do all of the name reformatting for you.

If the name does not get parsed correctly from a string, you can be more explicit in myst by turning it into an object, which may contain given, surname, non_dropping_particle, dropping_particle, suffix, and full name literal. (docs).

Hope that helps!

For going the other way, I have opened an issue to track the feature request here:

• Extend Myst.yml from CITATION.cff #2401

[jo-mueller]

@rowanc1 Thanks a lot, works like a charm :)

Is this documented somewhere in the jupyter book pages? Could offer to send a small PR that makes note of this.

[rowanc1]

We would love the help on the docs. There is some documentation in the mystmd.org here, it would be great to improve that and/or include it where you would have liked to see it in the JBv2 docs!! Thank you so much for your help, appreciate it!

[jo-mueller]

Don't thank me yet ;) Follow-up question: Is it possible to add a bunch of other keywords allowed by the citation.cff format (i.e., abstract, preferred-citation, etc.) to the metadata, too?

[jo-mueller]

Nevermind. Just read the doc link ^^"