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Adding a BYLINE field? #10

open opened by chadkoh.com

More of a question than an issue.

At Protocols for Publishers ✨ London standard.site was a common topic. One idea that came up was adding a BYLINE field which points to an authour's ATproto account. Currently, posts are attributed to the PDS, which would be the Publisher's atproto account. Yet writers are often not actually part of the org. A BYLINE field is particularly useful to journalists that change publications or freelancers. Such a field also opens up some opportunities for automation and custom feeds.

What do you think? It would be nice if this was at the ATproto layer but maybe we can start it here and it can be adopted by ATP in the future?

chronotope.aramzs.xyz

+1 to this. Especially considering that a post may be authored by multiple people. I'd generalize it even further honestly to "contributors" which would give us one field for authors, editors, etc... it could take an array of objects with a role property that can be set to a freeform string.

jimjonah.bsky.social

Byline and contribution line are two distinct things in the newspaper world.

You need both. Multiple people can be in each. If you want to list the editors, which newspaper articles don’t, that would be a third array.

tylerjfisher.com

I'd like an author lexicon that represents an author's role, bio, etc. with the publication (even if that's "Contributing writer" or whatever as a freelancer) that also points to the author's did, then an array of authors on the document. @jimjonah.bsky.social's point on contributors is good too.

The trick here is verification. What needs to be on the author's PDS to verify that they did, in fact, author this content? And how can a publishing system handle both records at the moment of publication?

chadkoh.com (author)

Does it have to be bi-directional? If you are listed as a contributor with your @handle, then it should be searchable and surfacable in feeds right? In your CMS all you would need is to have your contributors with a field for their @handle

Too simple?

tylerjfisher.com

I'm more concerned about bad actors misattributing content to people.

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