The question has come around to: How does a company present its employees? This question is interesting in an SIL web context because there are no less than 5 places, and potentially more, where SIL staff are presented on the web.
Staff is presented in the SIL corporate Bibliography
Senior staff in key leadership positions are presented on a CV page called the Roster
Staff are eligable for personal webspace on sil.org/~/SomeOne'sName
At a special SIL website like SIL-UND staff pages or at some other program where academics are teaching and staff
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.
Sections of a Linguist's CV
Sections in hResume
inclusion in hResume
Building block
Microformat status
Outstanding issue or question
Contact info
Contact info
Obligatory
must use hCard; should use <address> + hCard
hCard is a Recommendation
how does the adr and the geo relate to the contact info or hCard?
Personal Info
Not designated
What would fit into this section which would not fit into the Contact info section? (married status) But that might be able to be expressed through XFN, unless the spouse is unnamed.
One or more hcalendar events with the class name 'education', with an embedded hCard indicating the name of school, address of school etc.
hCalendar is a Recommendation
Education Abroad (Could be considered a sub-category of "Education")
Education
One or more hcalendar events with the class name 'education', with an embedded hCard indicating the name of school, address of school etc.
hCalendar is a Recommendation
Research interests
Not designated.
One could argue that this might be related to "skills", or marked with the rel-tag format.
Positions Held
Experience
Optional
One or more hcalendar events with the class name 'experience', with an embedded hCard indicating the job title, name of company, address of company etc.
hCalendar and hCard
The [hResume] draft should describe a way to handle a series of assignments at various employers within the context of one job working for a contracting, consulting, or temporary firm/agency. per mfreeman (2009)
Field Work
Experience
Optional
One or more hcalendar events with the class name 'experience', with an embedded hCard indicating the job title, name of company, address of company etc.
hCalendar and hCard, (my recommendation is to also consider using hGeo)
Field Work often has a Geo-Location and a language involved so I am not sure if it shouldn't also be marked up with hGeo and some rel-tag to the language.
Embedding hCard for job title leads to ambiguities. per TobyInk (2010)
Awards & Honors
Not Designated
Support for Awards and for Service sections are not currently implemented. per jeffmcneill (2007)
Grants Received
Not Designated
This might be considered simular to Awards and Honors. But in most CVs I have seen it is given its own section level.
Publications
publications
Optional
A lot of work has gone into description or a hCite type of format. But nothing has evolved yet. To this end I have resolved myself to using CoinS. Although the official recomendation is to use the <cite> tag.
Peer Reviewed
publications
Optional
Articles (PR)
publications
Optional
Chapters (PR)
publications
Optional
Books (PR)
publications
Optional
Monographs (PR)
publications
Optional
Edited Volumes (PR)
publications
Optional
Not Peer Reviewed
publications
Optional
Articles (NPR)
publications
Optional
Chapters (NPR)
publications
Optional
Books (NPR)
publications
Optional
Papers (NPR)
publications
Optional
Presentations
Not Designated
Generally these are cited like a publication but put in their own section.
Invited Talks
Not Designated
Generally these are cited like a publication but put in their own section.
Dissertations and Thesis supervised.
Not designated (but possibly like publications)
Generally these should be treated like publications.
Professional Associations
Affiliations
Optional
The class name affiliation along with an hcard of the organization.
I am not clear on how XFN can be used in this context. But it seems that this is the sort of thing that XFN was created for. There is also still the same objection as mentioned by TobyInk (2010) because there is no way to tell who the primary hCard on the page referes to.
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My wife has been tasked to be the Professional Development Coordinator for the company at which we work. Her task has several interesting things about in the area of data tracking. One question needing to be asked is: “what are the experiences and skills of our current employees?” This suggests that a databases with cross sections of professionally related events, people and skills is needed. These data then need to be able to be viewed by various stakeholders so that the data can be read and analyzed and understood; eventually to be acted upon and incorporated into company strategies for doing business.
One of the things that is obvious from the start is that a web based collection system is need for the data. A storage solution is also called for. And finally an web based analysis tool for presenting the data in a variety of manners for final use is needed.
So in an effort to help my wife out I have been looking a OpenSource implementations of Resume databases and CV building Databases. It has been my experience that when it comes to IT solutions that people need unique implementations and have unique criteria to meet but do not have unique problems. I think I even found a service that provides some professional development tracking called Onefile. But for our company it makes sense to approach this problem with an eye to integrate it with other corporate IT infrastructure, rather than silo it as an outsourced the system.
Summaries of Goals
This effort to take a strategic look a professional development of employees is part of an effort to look holistically at the corporation’s pool of human talent. The motivation is to be able to strategically deploy our skills in a manner where there is the largest return on investment. It is also important for us to be able to present our talented people and the products of their efforts to the world; both for credibility and for marketing.
Difficulties in the business world
There are quite a few legal challenges for companies (working in the U.S., Europe, and elsewhere) retaining these kinds of records, let alone sharing them with business partners.
Social networks are notorious for being able (if they are successful networks) pull information from users easily.
Social Network
http://www.boonex.com/dolphin/
http://www.patrick-opitz.com/projects/facelift/about/
http://www.xoops.org/ This is an open source social network which looks interesting but I am not sure how much momentum is behind it.
4.5 out of 5
This social network looks really cool and targets the e-portfolio
http://mahara.org/
The situation though is that everything that goes into a resume or a CV after biographical information is an event in which the person was involved, a skill they have or a resource they have helped to create. So if we could automatically pull information from the events and resources and then organize them according to Who then we would almost be there. (I am not sure how our company is tracking these kinds of information. It is most likely in a MS Word document.)
Events have several attributes one of those is time.
This is course management software: with calendars and DHTML in Video.
http://www.olat.org/website/en/html/about_features.html
NO CALENDAR….
http://www.davical.org/
http://www.bedework.org/bedework/update.do
http://trac.calendarserver.org/wiki/CalDAVTester
So How do we pull data from the container which holds our resources?
Well the container holding our resources is DSpace.
But these options work with wordpress….
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wikindx-macro-plug-in-for-wordpress/
http://wikindx.sourceforge.net/
http://refdb.sourceforge.net/features.html
