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hResume for Academics

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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:
  1. Popularity of hResume in presenting CV's and Resumes.
  2. 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.
  3. 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 CVSections in hResumeinclusion in hResumeBuilding blockMicroformat statusOutstanding issue or question
Contact infoContact infoObligatorymust use hCard; should use <address> + hCardhCard is a Recommendationhow does the adr and the geo relate to the contact info or hCard?
Personal Info
Not designatedWhat 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.
Photo
Not designatedShould hmedia be used for this photo?
SummarySummaryOptionalNone - No building block indicated.None
EducationEducationOptionalOne 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
ExperienceOptionalOne 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 hCardThe [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
ExperienceOptionalOne 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.
Language Proficiency
SkillsOptionalrel-tagrel-tag is a Recommendation Often skills have an indication of the level of attainment - hResume does not have this. per ntoll (2007)
Computer Skills
SkillsOptionalrel-tagrel-tag is a Recommendation
Teaching Experience
ExperienceOptionalhCalendar and hCardEmbedding hCard for job title leads to ambiguities. per TobyInk (2010)
Awards & Honors
Not DesignatedSupport for Awards and for Service sections are not currently implemented. per jeffmcneill (2007)
Grants Received
Not DesignatedThis might be considered simular to Awards and Honors. But in most CVs I have seen it is given its own section level.
Publications
publicationsOptionalA 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
publicationsOptional
Articles (PR)
publicationsOptional
Chapters (PR)
publicationsOptional
Books (PR)
publicationsOptional
Monographs (PR)
publicationsOptional
Edited Volumes (PR)publicationsOptional
Not Peer ReviewedpublicationsOptional
Articles (NPR)
publicationsOptional
Chapters (NPR)
publicationsOptional
Books (NPR)
publicationsOptional
Papers (NPR)
publicationsOptional
Presentations
Not DesignatedGenerally these are cited like a publication but put in their own section.
Invited Talks
Not DesignatedGenerally 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
AffiliationsOptionalThe class name affiliation along with an hcard of the organization. hCard is a Recommendation
Professional ContactsNot DesignatedhCard and XFN should be used.hCard is a Recommendation
XFN is a Recommendation		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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MiniCard Review

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I have been looking at the WP Theme, MiniCard. It is really cool. The design follows a Tim van Damme style layout.

Tim van Damme's Famous business card layout

I have been playing around with Minicard for some time. I have used it as my splash page for about a year. (I have been using K2 since 2005 so any change in theme is a big step). There are some things I really like and some things I think could be improved upon. (Granted I am using and looking at the free version.) I really like the minimalist business card design. However, one of the things that I find difficult is separating what is too much info from what is just enough. Right now I have quite a few social networks loaded on my front page so, even though it is Minimalist, it is almost not business card.

TheJourneyler.org as I had from 2010-2011

Most of my suggestions have to do with the options page, but a few have to do with layout.

Options:

  1. A place to store a Child Theme.
    K2 has a really cool way of selecting where the author wants to store their child theme so that when the theme is upgraded the child theme is not written over. Because the Code is GPL’d, I think this code could be copied from K2 into the GPL’d version of MiniCard. Being that the whole Tim Van Damme (TVD) idea is to be unique with style, it seems that Minicard would benefit from embracing child themes by providing a user the option to not just use a child theme, but also facilitate where to store that child theme.
  2. More Networks.
    It seems that it would be really easy for users of MiniCard to use more or some Social networks which are not on the list provided on the options page. I think it is crazy for any user to expect a developer to have anticipated all the possible social networks out there. I went through TVD’s wall of fame just to get some inspiration and noticed a few networks that minicard does not offer out of the box:

    • iusethis.com
    • ffffound.com
    • vi.sualize.us
    • corkd.com
    • wikipedia.org
    • www.colourlovers.com
    • soundcloud.com
    • filmreviewfriday.com
    • github.com
    • pandora.com
    • themeforest.net

    In one of the past revisions to the Minicard theme there was released, an easy way to add a custom social network. This is much improved over earlier versions of this theme. (I think this is still the case in the current 2011 release.)

    The Plug-in Find Me On has an interesting interface for adding new network. It is sort of Drag and Drop. I use this plugin on hugh.thejourneyler.org.

  3. A Contact Info page separate from my social networks page.
    One thing that might be helpful too is separating Messaging and Contact from social networks. “Messaging and Contact info” is usually treated differently from “social networks”. That is social network info like skype, aol, google chat, IRC, etc. are not really conceptualized in the minds of the people on the TVD wall of fame as “social networks”. If this information is provided then it most often falls under the “contact” section rather than “my social networks” section. Out of the box MiniCard does not have a contact section, so I can understand how this info is lumped together with the users social networks.

    Perhaps one solution to this is add an optional (included in the theme by default but not active by default) template page that could be added to MiniCard for contact info and pull data from the hCard data as well.

    This contact info page might also display Online Status of Messaging information. One caveat suggestion pertains to aim v.s. iChat. That is the syntax to open these protocols is a little different if the website admin wants ichat to open… it just aint going to work on a windows machine… I am wondering if a little javascript magic might be able to sniff out a OS X machine visiting the site as apposed to a Windows OS and put in the proper syntax for opening up iChat.
    Interesting enough Themeforest had a theme much like MiniCard.

    MiniCard like Theme displaying Contact info

  • Add direct color and background pattern.
    There are more color options “out of the Box” on the pro version of the theme. However, the color options are not as user selectable as they could be. I have seen color wheels and a palates for suggesting associated colors as option panels for selecting css values. A color selector for the background, and the various parts of the theme would be nice.
  • More hCard options:
    MiniCard does support hCard, but as I was looking over the format of hCard I think that more can be embedded in hCard content than what MiniCard allows for out of the box. That is I think that MiniCard could be improved with more fields in the admin section for the site admin to input their data. There is an hCard creator on the Microformats website. It shows the supported values in the hCard speck.

    • Making a recipe blog

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    My wife, Becky likes to cook. I like her to cook. She recently started to blog. So I talked her through the MySQL database set up and the installation of her own copy of WordPress on our Dreamhost account. (I must admit that it was a happy day.) One of the things she is doing is writing about what she cooks, with pictures of how it turns out.
    “Cool”, says I. But how does one keep track of all the recipes? So I asked her why she was blogging. And she said that one of the reasons was that if she had a fixin’ to use a certain ingredient she would have a place to search to see if she had cooked with that ingredient before and how it turned out.

    So I am on the hunt for a recipe plugin or recipe management CMS for her.

    So far I have come across OpenEats.
    And for Using WordPress itself there is hRecipe.