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 Download the <a href="https://calendar.google.com/calendar/ical/14c96687c3814f289f92de53b49bdfa7e5161d458ed1ab02d6a6c8a994522e10%40group.calendar.google.com/public/basic.ics">.ics</a> file and add it to your calendar so won't miss any of our meetings!
 
 ## Contributors
+(community:contributors)=
 Thank you to all the amazing contributors who make OME-NGFF possible:
 
 <iframe src="https://german-bioimaging.github.io/ome-zarr-acknowledgments/" width="800" height="1400"></iframe>
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 Detailed guidance for contributing developers is available at
 [https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/contributing/](https://docs.openmicroscopy.org/contributing/)
+
+
+## Authorship
+
+NGFF is a collective and community-driven effort, and we welcome contributions from anyone.
+Acknowledgement of contributions is important to us,
+and we provide ways to to credit contributors for their work in different places of the NGFF ecosystem.
+
+For auhorship of the specification itself,
+a list of authors is maintained in the `authors.yml` file in the [ngff-spec](https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec) repository.
+The list of authors in this file is organized in two tiers:
+- First category: Those who have contributed to the development of the spec through the RFC process
+  in the form of RFC authorship, reviewing, commenting or editorial work.
+- Second category: Those who have contributed in any form to the development of the specification under the [ngff-spec repository](https://github.com/ome/ngff-spec).
+  This includes, but not limited to, all contributions to the specification text, schemas, examples or other content in the ngff-spec repository.
+Upon release of a new version, the list of authors in the `authors.yml` file will be synced to a citeable DOI via Zenodo,
+which can be used for citation of the specification in publications and other works.
+
+To ensure the visibility of all contributions to the broader ecosystem that are not directly related to specification development,
+a list of contributors is maintained in the [ome-zarr-acknowledgements](https://github.com/german-BioImaging/ome-zarr-acknowledgments/) repository,
+which is displayed [here](community:contributors).
+Any contribution to the NGFF ecosystem can be acknowledged in this repository, including but not limited to
+- contribution to spec development
+- Maintenance of software implementations of ome-zarr
+- Development of tools and utilities for working with ome-zarr
+- Development of documentation and educational materials for ome-zarr
+- Organization of or participation in events and workshops related to ome-zarr
+- Any other contribution that has an impact on the development and adoption of ome-zarr
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