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@jan-glx jan-glx commented Nov 11, 2026 •

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Makes the original designers of SpatialData (Marconato et al., 2025) authors of the storage-format specification (SIT-264): Giovanni Palla, Kevin A. Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup and Josh Moore (role: contributor → role: author).

Authors are named under the title, next to the editors (Jan Gleixner, Luca Marconato), and will be the authors of the citation of each release (CITATION.cff, Zenodo DOI). The header then reads:

Editors: Jan Gleixner, Luca Marconato
Authors: Giovanni Palla, Kevin A. Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup, Josh Moore, Luca Marconato

Please comment below if you agree to be listed as an author and if you would like a different wording of your contribution, a different ORCID, or not to be listed. This is merged only once all four have approved.

Closes #69.

…storage-format specification (SIT-264)

Jan Gleixner and Luca Marconato are the editors. Giovanni Palla, Kevin A.
Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup, Josh Moore and Luca Marconato are named as the
original designers of SpatialData (Marconato et al., 2025); making the first
four authors of the specification is a separate pull request that needs their
approval. Everyone else is a contributor, to this specification itself or to
the design, format and implementation it is based on. The SpatialData paper
and the code contributors of the spatialdata package are acknowledged as
groups. The header states the policy for editors, authors and released
versions.
…on (SIT-264)

Giovanni Palla, Kevin A. Yamauchi, Isaac Virshup and Josh Moore become authors
(role: author), as original designers of SpatialData: they are named under the
title with the editors and will be authors of the citation of each release.
To be merged only once all four have approved.
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jan-glx commented Nov 13, 2026

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Hi @giovp, @kevinyamauchi, @ivirshup, @joshmoore,

We (@LucaMarconato and I) have finally managed to extract SpatialData's data model and storage format into an independent, versioned specification, hosted at spatialdata-spec.scverse.org.

We consider you (along with Luca) the original authors of model & format and would therefore like to formally acknowledge your contributions by listing you as authors of the specification.

If you agree, the storage format page would look like this:
https://pr-84.spatialdata-spec.pages.dev/data-model/1.0/storage-format/0.4/storage-format

Please reply here to confirm whether you agree to be listed as an author of both the data model and storage format specifications. Let me know if you would prefer different wording for your contribution, a different ORCID, or not to be listed at all.

We will only merge this once everyone has approved.

Of course, I'd also be very happy to hear your feedback on how the specification is presented and encourage you to contribute to future versions. Feel free to send me unformatted feedback via scverse Zulip or email.

Thanks!

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