Correct mapping of multiple publishers, creators, contributors

[lorenz-c]

Dear all,

we are using ncISO for extracting ISO-19115-conformal metadata from NetCDF-files on our THREDDS-Server. While most of it works like a charm, we have some trouble to define multiple entities with the same role. As an example, there are usually multiple contributors to a dataset (e.g., PI, owner, pointofcontact,co-author, etc.). But so far, all efforts in adding multiple names to the contrbutor_name-attribute simply leads to one lengthy string of names.

Here are the things that I have tried so far:

1. Separate the names with a comma and semicolon
2. Add a newline-character (similar to the NetCDF-History) between the names
3. Add the names as a Python-List with two elements.

After inspecting the contents of this repo, I've found some parameters like publishers, contributors and creators which seem to provide the desired functionality. But I have not yet managed to find the proper attribute-format....

Is this possible and, if yes, is there any kind of documentation about this feature?

Best regards and thank you very much in advance,
Christof