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+    "contributors": [
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Bonn", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Grefe, Christian"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "CERN", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Mato, Pere"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "CERN", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Munnich, Astrid"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "CERN", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Nikiforou, Nikiforos"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "University of Liverpool", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Kostka, Peter"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "DESY", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Rosemann, Christoph"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "DESY", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Lu, Shaojun"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "ANL", 
+            "type": "Other", 
+            "name": "Blyth, David"
+        }
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+    "notes": "webpage: http://dd4hep.cern.ch/", 
+    "language": "eng", 
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+            "name": "Frank, Markus"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "DESY", 
+            "name": "Gaede, Frank"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "CERN", 
+            "name": "Petric, Marko"
+        }, 
+        {
+            "affiliation": "CERN", 
+            "name": "Sailer, Andre"
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+}