Improvements to author affiliations for large journals

[joemull]

User stories

Some editors want only minimal information to appear for authors affiliations. For example, Glossa often has multiple authors on each article, and a high volume, so it is too much work to fix up the job titles, departments, and affiliation dates. And they require the use of ORCID, so it is best to let users follow ORCID links to get more up-to-date and detailed information on the author's ORCID profile. In some cases the ROR ID and org name are the only desired pieces of affiliation metadata.

Other editors want more information, perhaps because they do not use ORCID as much, so the job titles, departments, and dates should be available to them.

Proposed solution

• Create settings to allow editors to turn off some of the fields on the affiliation form: title, department, start, and end. Modify the templates and form so that the input fields do not show up when the setting is turned off, and nothing is output in the display templates (even if there is content).
• Create a block for help text at the bottom of the editor's Edit author details page, which shows which of these settings are currently on, and gives links to change them.
• Leave the affiliations for user accounts unchanged by these settings.

[joemull]

Adding to urgent triage so we can consider rolling this out for a minor version of the 1.8.x release.

Edit: Yes, we do want to put this in a 1.8.x release.