Connect custom post type with custom taxonomy more than once

Hello all,

I am very new to WordPress and I am still trying to find my way around it.

The project that I am involved is about an online newspaper.

For this matter I have created a custom type named “Article”. Each article has an author, a contributor and possibly a translator. It is requested that articles are retrievable by quering on these entities (eg I want to retrieve all articles contributed by a certain contributor, or written by a certain author). While googling around I found that the best way to go around this is by creating a custom taxonomy for each of these 3 categories.

Now I know how to do this, but the problem here is that the pool of people that act as authors, translators or contributors is the same. So if I go creating three different taxonomies then I would have the same values repeated in all three taxonomies.

So I figured that the best way to resolve this redudancy is to create only one custom taxonomy with the name “Person” and then connect it three times with the custom post type “Article”. Or create another custom post type and connect this three times with articles.

The thing is that I have no idea how to do any of these… I have tried searching for it but nothing that I tried worked for me so far. Maybe my whole idea is wrong and I should be approaching it differently.

Does any of you guys has any idea on how such a request could be implemented?

Note that I am using Types plugin to create custom taxonomies and post types, but I don’t mind switching to a different plugin or doing it manually.

Thanks!