Support contributor metadata for datasets

[xuang7]

Feature Summary

Currently, a dataset only records its owner, which is the user account that uploaded it.

In practice, a dataset may involve contributions from multiple people. The person who uploads the dataset may not be the person who collected, curated, processed, or supervised the data. At the moment, there is no way to record or display this contributor information on the dataset page, which makes it difficult to represent collaborative datasets.

Proposed Solution or Design

Add contributor metadata to datasets so that contributors can be properly credited independently of the dataset owner.

Each dataset can include a list of contributors, with the following information for each contributor:

• Name
• Role
• Affiliation
• Email
• Whether they are an original creator of the dataset

Contributor information will be displayed on the dataset detail page and can be managed by users with write access to the dataset.

This design follows common dataset publishing practices, where creator and contributor information is included as part of standard dataset metadata.

Sample

Affected Area

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[chenlica]

This feature is very valuable as we want to acknowledge the authors. I suggest we remove the "Role" column as those values are hard to define. We can add a "comments" for people include additional information, such as the contribution by each author.