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This is a deck I’ve mentioned in previous posts. If you are an HR-XML implementer and haven’t already taken a look, take some time to review and to understand some of the foundation behind HR-XML 3.0. You can view in full-screen or download by following the “view” link.

There are quite a few items I’d like to report from this week’s ePortfolio & Digital Identity Conference. For now, let me just get my slides out, which I’ve promised to post here. You can also download the deck (follow “view” link back to the slideshare.net site and download).

Last year, I wrote a post and provided some links to a site where IBM had demonstrations of using industry standard XML schemas within “pureXML” databases. As mentioned below, how to work with HR-XML and databases is likely at the top of our all-time list of frequently asked questions. If you haven’t looked at the capabilities of XML native databases, you’ll want to register for this free webinar. What really makes this interesting is the combination of an XML-aware database, technologies such as XQuery and XPath, and Web 2.0 technologies such as Atom and related syndication technologies. From a business point of view, what all this technology can add up to is savings in database and application design and some very flexible and dynamic ways to extend your customer’s or trading partner’s view into transactional data.

HR-XML’s 2nd annual Global Partnering & Integration Summit is months away (Oct. 13-14, Hyatt Regency McCormick Place, Chicago), but I’m really pleased that the industry is stepping up to support the one event held by the HR services industry for the HR services industry. Below are some of our event sponsors. To learn more about the conference, sponsorship, exhibit opportunities, or attending, please visit www.partneringsummit.org. If you missed the 2007 inaugural Partnering & Integration Summit, here’s where you can get a look at presentations and pictures from last year’s event.

A “holy grail” for some with respect to online recruiting would be data standards that would enable job postings to essentially serve as a query against any segment of the world-wide set of resumes or CVs on the Web. The vision is that this might evolve into a real electronic market where talent supply and demand could be matched in a precise, on-demand way. What stands in the way of this automagic, world-wide matching of talent supply and demand? This sometimes perplexes those coming at the question from the purely from technical side, but is almost immediately apparent to recruiting professionals.

There is now a great volume of material available on the Web comparing Web services built using WS-* stack technologies to those built using RESTful design principles. Just weeks ago, Burton Analyst Kurt Cagle offered us what practically was a short-course on RESTful web services design and its origins.

Calling all recruiters, HR and those working within in the UK Online Recruitment Industry. At the Onrec.com Conference (Tuesday 3rd June 2008 - Westminster, London
), delegates will hear presentations on the following topics: