Barba-CV

Barba-CV is an open, vendor-neutral JSON specification for deterministic, machine-readable CV/resume data.

Documentation

“CV data is inherently heterogeneous—often incomplete, inconsistently structured, and partially normalized. The Barba-CV schema therefore enforces deterministic structure while preserving semantic flexibility, allowing real-world CV data to be represented without unrealistic constraints.”

Conceptual Pipeline

  1. Unstructured CV (PDF/DOCX)
  2. AI/LLM extraction (probabilistic)
  3. Barba-CV schema mapping (deterministic)
  4. Structured CV data for interoperability

What it is / is not

Barba-CV is:

  • an open, vendor-neutral data standard
  • a deterministic JSON schema for CV structure
  • a shared format for AI extraction pipelines and ATS interoperability

Barba-CV is not:

  • a parser service in this repository
  • a public API or SDK
  • a replacement for separate service-layer projects