XML Standardization of Job & Grant Applications, Curriculum Vita, Resumes

[SMH]

Especially with all the massive numbers of unemployed in economic hard times
these days, individuals are spending countless hours repetitively writing the
same (auto)biographical information from employer to funding agency. Many
have web interfaces with multipage forms giving name, address, more personal
info, education, professional/work/etc experience, awards/honors/etc.

Until all of us get our bodies wired to or implanted with a scannable
cybernetic biometric chip at birth that reveals all truths about us---both
beautiful and ugly---what is the possibility of urging employers and others
interested in CV/resumes/biographical sketches to adapt their info-retrieval
database systems to accept an XML format/standard for these types of
documents? Hasn't someone done such a thing already?

Thereby we can all carry the story of our lives on a 2 GB UFD including
medical/health, educational, extracurricular, and criminal histories.

If an XML standard exists, where do I find it? is there an app that
opens/edits/saves it?

 

[Joe Kesselman]

I don't know of anything accepted as "a standard" yet, but there are
certainly some proposed schemas for these purposes. For example,
http://xmlresume.sourceforge.net/

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[Peter Flynn]

Especially with all the massive numbers of unemployed in economic hard times
these days, individuals are spending countless hours repetitively writing the
same (auto)biographical information from employer to funding agency. Many
have web interfaces with multipage forms giving name, address, more personal
info, education, professional/work/etc experience, awards/honors/etc.

Until all of us get our bodies wired to or implanted with a scannable
cybernetic biometric chip at birth that reveals all truths about us---both
beautiful and ugly---what is the possibility of urging employers and others
interested in CV/resumes/biographical sketches to adapt their info-retrieval
database systems to accept an XML format/standard for these types of
documents? Hasn't someone done such a thing already?

Thereby we can all carry the story of our lives on a 2 GB UFD including
medical/health, educational, extracurricular, and criminal histories.

Mmmm.

<history class="criminal">
<arrest date="2011-08-31">Using Microsoft Word</arrest>

If an XML standard exists, where do I find it? is there an app that
opens/edits/saves it?

The standard is called CERIF and is published by EuroCRIS on
http://www.eurocris.org/

Unfortunately it is massively complex, but it is at least a target
standard. Whether it will survive in an implementable way I cannot say,
but it does seem to have significant institutional support.

Many of the suppliers of campus research-publication databases (eg
Vidatum Academic, the one my own institution uses) are aware of the
standard and have plans to implement it. But like most outputs, it is
easiest to implement when the entire data flow is already in XML to
start with.

///Peter