Barba-CV
Barba-CV
Barba-CV is an open, vendor-neutral JSON specification for deterministic, machine-readable CV/resume data.
Documentation
- Documentation Hub
- Visual Overview
- Design Principles
- LLM Integration
- AI Parsing Guidelines
- Examples
- Roadmap
- Origin
“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
- Unstructured CV (PDF/DOCX)
- AI/LLM extraction (probabilistic)
- Barba-CV schema mapping (deterministic)
- 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