Ability to identify site users who are authors on biblio entries

We have accumulated our college publications over the past few years, and the biblio module makes it easy for us to display them to the public. Now we would like to use that data for faculty performance review. Our plan is to write a module that extends biblio by allowing multiple uids to be associated with a node, where the uids are restricted to those having (selectable) roles. (i.e. each publication can be tagged with more than one faculty member who is a co-author). Then we offer a View which allows for filtering and sorting on this extra uid field.

Our plan is to add a table with (vid,nid,uid) columns and a hook_form_alter() to add a multiple select widget that lists faculty members, and a hook_nodeapi() to load, insert, update and delete. I then make a hook_views_tables() function to create a tabular view of pubs listed by faculty author, and some views handlers.

I have a working (5.x) module, but since this is the first I would contribute, I hope that someone who really knows what they are doing could help. I really don't get Views2, and can't find much documentation.

I also need a better suggestion for the name of the new table and name of the module.