HR-XML Consortium

The HR-XML Consortium is an independent, non-profit organization dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of XML specifications to enable e-business and the automation of data exchanges related to human resources. By developing and publishing open data exchange standards based on XML, the consortium provides the means for any company to transact with other companies without having to establish, engineer, and implement many separate interchange mechanisms for human resources data. 

HR-XML specific vocabularies

More information: HR Open Standards Consortium website.

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