FAIR for your CV
Your CV on SigmaCV isn't only a document to download. Every CV is also published as open, machine-readable data — Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable (FAIR) — so other tools, search engines and repositories can read, cite and reuse it.
The formats your CV comes in, and what each is for:
- Canonical JSON + JSON Schema — the complete CV as structured JSON, validated against a published, versioned schema — the single source of truth every other format derives from.
- CSL-JSON & BibTeX — your publication list as citation data, ready to import into reference managers.
- RO-Crate — a Research Object Crate bundling the CV with its author identifier, licence and provenance in one archive.
- PDF · Word · LaTeX · Markdown · HTML — the everyday outputs for applications and sharing — with identical citations across all of them.
- schema.org JSON-LD — structured data embedded in your public page so search engines understand who and what it describes.
- OAI-PMH & Signposting — discovery for machines — typed-format links in the page headers, and a standard harvesting endpoint for repositories.
A published CV has a stable web address and carries your author identifier (ORCID), so it can be cited like any online research object — and a machine following the page's Signposting links finds every typed format on its own.
If you let your public CV be indexed, repositories and aggregators can harvest it as Dublin Core over OAI-PMH, and the canonical CV schema is published openly so any tool can validate and adopt the format.
SigmaCV is open source under the Apache-2.0 licence. You can run the whole application yourself, audit how it works, or build on it — nothing here is locked in.
See the standards we align with and the full open-science statement, or read the source on GitHub: Principles