diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
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--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -2,9 +2,18 @@ Package: RANN
 Title: Fast Nearest Neighbour Search (Wraps ANN Library) Using
     L2 Metric
 Version: 2.6.1
-Author: Sunil Arya and David Mount (for ANN), Samuel E. Kemp,
-    Gregory Jefferis
-Maintainer: Gregory Jefferis <jefferis@gmail.com>
+Authors@R: c(
+    person("Gregory","Jefferis", email="jefferis@gmail.com", 
+      role = c("aut", "cre"), comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-0587-9355")),
+    person(given = c("Samuel", "E."), family = "Kemp", role = "aut"),
+    person("Sunil","Arya", role=c("aut", "cph"),
+      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-0939-4192")),
+    person("David","Mount", role=c("aut", "cph"), 
+      comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0002-3290-8932")),
+    person("University of Maryland", role="cph",
+      comment = "ANN library is copyright University of Maryland and Sunil Arya and
+    David Mount. See file COPYRIGHT for details")
+    )
 Description: Finds the k nearest neighbours for every point in a
     given dataset in O(N log N) time using Arya and Mount's ANN library
     (v1.1.3). There is support for approximate as well as exact searches,
@@ -16,7 +25,5 @@ URL: https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN, http://jefferislab.github.io/RANN/
 BugReports: https://github.com/jefferislab/RANN/issues
 Suggests:
     testthat
-Copyright: ANN library is copyright University of Maryland and
-    Sunil Arya and David Mount. See file COPYRIGHT for details.
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