Provide link to author via email address during ingestion

(In [1208]) Addresses #209: added capability to attach a list of user-ids for authors to an article; the list is returned in the ObjectInfo? for the article.

From email discussion:

[Ronald wrote:]

Amit mentioned coloring annotations, and in that scenario you have the article, the list of annotation authors, and just need to know if a given annotation author is also an author of that article.

Any other scenarios?

[Steve responded:]

There are two related scenarios. One is when viewing the article, we will differentiate between author annotations and other annotations. At this point, I would have the article xml. During the XSL transform, I have to somehow identify an annotation as being made by the author. The XML doc contains the annotation info which has the creator userID. Seems like it would be easiest to pass in the author ID(s) to the XSL sheet and match based on that. Alternatively, I suppose it is possible to make a callout of some sort from the XSL to lookup up profiles based on the email, but that seems messier.

The second scenario is when presented with a list of annotations or a threaded reply view. Again, we will distinguish between author and non-author comments. In this case, I won't need to get the article XML because the article will not be presented. I am already getting the ObjectInfo for the article to get the title. Would be nice to have the author info included so that as I present the replies or annotations, I can match the creator ID with the authorID.

And later:

[Ronald wrote:]

I was assuming you wanted to know which author of an article (from the list of authors in the header) had which user-id. But I guess you don't care about linking those. I.e. you're happy with having two lists of authors for an article (the list in the article header, and the list of author-users generated by linking email addresses), and you'll never have any need of any correlation between these two lists.

[Steve responded:]

Ah, the actual whole list of authors is kind of irrelevant to me at this point, though it may be useful in the future. I'm concerned only with the userIDs of the corresponding author(s) as this is the way PLoS has strucutred the requirement.

Also note that current PLoS-One articles do not have emails for individual authors, but just a separate list contact email addresses.

So therefore the article has just a list of user-ids, with no connection to the authors listed in the article.

PLoS-One will handle the managing of the user-id list, both on ingest, and also later on user-account creation.

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