The public api returns a very limited set of attributes in the list and get endpoints for bases and records, such as who to attribute creates and updates to. This would be very useful information to include in the api response so that third party apps can attribute Airtable records / bases to their authors. Currently record comments are the only thing to reference a user.
Even at the enterprise level, the audit logs have some limited user information on creates and updates to bases, but nothing around records.