Photograph credits in LaTeX

Question

Is there any convenient package/way to link photograph credits with a figure, and then generate a kind of \listoffigures?

Have you any other solution than generating the .lof temporary file, and edit it manually?

Answer 1

For my thesis I made a "copyright permissions" section, using a combination of bibunits, bibentry and cleveref. I made a bibliography style file that displays the copyright field (only for this list--the main bibliography can use a normal style). You can see the sources for all the details, but in the end, you enter a list like:

\begin{itemize}
 \item \Cref{fig:coupling,fig:capnet} reproduced with permission from:\\*
    \bibentry{koch_charge-insensitive_2007}.
 \item \Cref{sample,schematic,fig:vrabimap,fig:extjc,fig:exp,fig:relim,%
    fig:hetvsphtcnt,fig:arrows,%
    fig:linecuts,fig:powsweep,fig:hirelim3,fig:wolverine} 
     reproduced (with altered formatting) with permission from:\\*          
     \bibentry{bishop_nonlinear_2009}.
\end{itemize}

and this produces a list like:

• Figures 2.7 and 2.8 reproduced with permission from:

Jens Koch, Terri M. Yu, Jay Gambetta, A. A. Houck, D. I. Schuster, J. Majer, Alexandre Blais, M. H. Devoret, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Physical Review A 76, 042319 (2007).

Copyright (2007) by the American Physical Society.

• Figures 4.2 to 4.8 and 4.10 to 4.14 reproduced (with altered formatting) with permission from:

Lev S. Bishop, J. M. Chow, Jens Koch, A. A. Houck, M. H. Devoret, E. Thuneberg, S. M. Girvin, and R. J. Schoelkopf, Nature Physics 5, 105–109 (2009).

Copyright © 2009, Nature Publishing Group.

Answer 2

Attempt #1: Use tocloft

With the tocloft package you can create your own List of ... list. Here is a nice tutorial. You can define a \PictureAuthor{John Doe} command to issue in each figure caption. However, in the lists of figures there will be no links to the authors (as they will be lested in a separate page).

Attempt #2": Use bibtopic

You can use the bibtopic package to generate a reference list only for the authors, and use the cite{John Doe} command in each picture caption. Using the backref option of the hyperref package, in the list of references (generated by \bibliography{}), for each of the referenced authors a list of the picture will be appended.

Answer 3

While I haven't previously attempted exactly what you need (I'm in economics so have little need for photos), I have done something very similar using the ever-powerful but sometimes daunting glossaries package.

You can set up any number of List of... structures in your doc with glossaries, the two standards being Glossary and Abbreviations. The List of... structures can be formatted in a number of canned and tailored ways, including, for example, look-alike of Lev's example in his answer. If you were to attach the glossary citations (in your case, references to credits) to your figure captions or labels, then only those credits attached to figures actually appearing in your end document would be listed in your List of Credits.

For myself, I'm a great fan of the glossaries package. It's still relatively new, but that shouldn't stop it from being more widely known. I have no doubt that it would satisfy your needs. Nevertheless, it does have a bit of a learning curve, so in that respect it mightn't be as "convenient" as you might like.