Barba-CV Roadmap (Public Spec Repository)

This repository focuses on the open Barba-CV specification: schema, principles, and examples.

Near-term priorities

  1. Clarify schema semantics and field-level guidance
  2. Expand representative example payloads
  3. Improve versioning/changelog visibility for implementers
  4. Publish a compliance validator specification

Validator status

A public compliance validator is planned to help implementers verify whether payloads are Barba-CV compatible.

Current status:

  • JSON Schema validation is available via schema/barba-cv.schema.json
  • Certification workflow and official validator process are not yet finalized in this repository

Scope boundary

Barba-CV remains a vendor-neutral standard.

Parsing engines, normalization pipelines, and commercial processing services may use Barba-CV, but are intentionally out of scope for this repository.

A separate public service-layer repository exists at:

  • https://github.com/lgb-sas/mcp-nantua