For a couple of months I have been looking into options for presenting academics' CVs on the web in semantic xHtml. Of the options out there hResume rises to the surface. There are several reasons for this:
- Popularity of hResume in presenting CV's and Resumes.
- Microformats are about the interoperability of data through semantic markup - Academics generally want people to cite them, and resume publishers usually hope to have resume users and readers.
- Semantic markup of content allows for the semantic styling of content.
The largest challenge in implementing academic CVs in hResueme versus business resumes in hResume format is citations from publications and presentations along with that is the semantic markup of citations with standards like
COinS (though COinS might not be true
Semantic Markup). However, there are other challenges too. For instance how to categorize the sections of a CV. I work mostly with linguists and with the CV sections that linguists use. Therefore, I may be missing some crucial section of a CV as used by another academic discipline.
[CVs like resumes are unique to each individual so these categories are an abstraction and not all sections will be in every CV.] These abstractions are included the following chart along with a mapping of how these sections are (in my opinion) best expressed in the hResume microformat. hResume builds on other microformats, like
hCalendar and
hCard. So I have also mapped the elements of an hResume back to the building block microformat (per
this list on microformat's website). These dependency formats are also presented. In the last column I have presented some remarks specific to that section.
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