European Institute for E-Learning   Europortfolio, the European ePortfolio consortium HR-XML Europass / Europortfolio Curriculum Vitae conformant system

Welcome on the CV Translator web service homepage


This service is a toolkit to help organisations to increase employability and life long learning of their employees, customers, students using CV interoperability and especialy the Europass CV proposal from the European Commission supported by Cedefop.
The HR-XML Europortfolio / Europass CV application profile is used as the heart (central pivot format) of this web-service. The main advantage of the HR-XML schemas regarding the Cedefop Europass schemas is the openess to new possibilities for HR management as well as ePortfolio perspectives for Life Long Learning.

You will find from here several links related to this web-service and interoperability work, link to different web-service client demonstrators, an explanatory notice and some information related to conformance testing.


Links:



Cross-interoperability details:

This web service use the Europass / Europortfolio HR-XML CV application profile (v1.2 Release Candidate 3, based on HR-XML Candidate 2.5 XML schemas mapped with Cedefop Europass 1.2 schemas) and all related XSLs for cross interoperability with:

The PDF, OpenOffice (ODT) and Word (DOC) exports are using the Cedefop Web Service.



Available web-service functions:

Tow transformation functions "FileTransformTo" and "XmlTransformTo" are implemented and ready for testing.
The last one "FileTransformSendTo" to transport transformed CV to destination hosting webservice is under development.
Other functions planned for the final release for the end of 2008:





Changelog:

V1.2 RC3 (1st June 2008):

Important : All information store for debugging purpose using XMLTransformTo Function has been suppressed.
In consequence, the result of a transformation in one of the Cedefop WebService office document (PDF, ODT and DOC) is now the binary itself encoded in Hexadecimal.

To decode this kind of data using PHP you could use the following function:
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
Function hexstr($hexstr) {
//---------------------------------------------------------------------------
$hexstr = str_replace(' ', '', $hexstr);
$retstr = pack('H*', $hexstr);
return $retstr;
}

The new function "XMLTransformToFile" allow to store temporary localy on EIfEL server the result of the transformation in order to allow to download it later.
It is then needed to supply an additional parameter related to the expected filename.
This function will be used in the Operator HR-XML hResume scripts.
The function FileTransformTo will be modify in the next release of the Web service.

The "locale" parameter has been added in XMLTransformTo and XMLTransformToFile functions. It will be added soon in FileTransformTo function.

The format CVUNIVERSEL is now fully based on the HRXML EUROPASS CV format, so the related code CVUNIVERSEL is still maintained but is now equivalent to EUROPASSCVHRXML. It will be removed in a next release of the webservice.



Terms and Conditions:

This service is available free of charge for individual use or demonstration purposes (interoperability testing),

This service is available free of charge for professional and commercial use for EIfEL and Europortfolio corporate members.

Please contact Marc Van Coillie for more information about this service or the related work.

Use of personal information submitted by CV owners or organisations to CVT:
These information could be use only for debugging purpose. We do not sell, rent, share, trade, or give away any of your personally identifiable information with third parties.


Thanks to Cedefop, European Commission, HR-XML Consortium and its European chapter, Europortfolio and EIfEL members to make this work possible.
Copyright 2006-2008, EIfEL - European Institute for E-Learning (Member of HR-XML Europe Consortium)