In collaboration with Marc Van Coillie, from The European Institute for eLearning, the Rhizome project has developed The application profile of Europass CV based on HR-XML SEP (Staff Exchange Protocol) Candidate specifications and the extensions for Europass/Europortfolio CV application profile.

• The application profile of Europass CV based on HR-XML SEP Candidate specifications describes a XML binding of the Europass CV as defined at the European level. This work can be seen as a proposal for an e-portfolio binding of the Europass CV from CEDEFOP using HR-XML specifications. This application profile would allow creation of Europass CV XML based documents in order to allow import/export of simple XML profile (example: aggregation of CV from personal eportfolios to a HR system).

• The extensions for Europass/Europortfolio CV application profile, as the name indicates, describes several possible extensions for the HR-XML Europortfolio/Europass CV profile in order to better fit with ePortfolio interoperability requirements, such as extension elements for higher education, for language or competency based portfolio, etc.

This application profile allows the development and update of Europass CV, Resumes and ePortfolios web applications using the Europass CV data model and the HR-XML SEP candidate specifications.

The concrete benefits of using this application profile are the following:

• Conformance with both European Europass v2 CV data model and last HR-XML specifications;
• Ease of integration with HR systems while using common open and extensible specifications;
• Use of external references and attachments for annexes to complete the CV structure;
• Integration with other Europass and European initiatives, like the Europass Diploma and the Certificate supplement, the European Qualification Framework;
• Enable the capability to use external competency frameworks;
• Addition of extra elements to extend CV semantics in an ePortfolio approach (i.e. additional elements such as publications, speaking event history, referees, affiliations, experiences, etc.);
• Addition of a relationship layer to increase semantic dialogue between parts of CV/ePortfolio (i.e. experiences with competency, education background and Europass Diploma Supplement);
• Ability to test conformance while using a common interoperability framework;
• Cross interoperability between Europass CV and HR-XML schemas with the related transformation stylesheets;
• Interoperability with other CV/ePortfolio standards (IMS ePortfolio, Leap2a, LinkedIn hResume) and production of Europass CV documents (PDF, ODT, MS Office Doc) while supporting an online transformation web service.

The documents are downloadable here and also from the EifEL website. They are available under Creative Commons BY-NC-SA.

• Europass CV – HR XML Application Profile
• Extensions for the Europass CV – HR-XML Application Profile