A comprehensive and freely available suite of data exchange standards designed to offer efficiencies and cost savings for all participants in the staffing supply chain by using Extensible Markup Language (XML), a set of rules for encoding documents in machine-readable form. HR-XML SIDES offers a means of exchanging data over the Internet by standardizing data elements and attributes and the way they are exchanged. Through these standardized XML data exchanges, staffing suppliers, staffing customers and third-party vendor managers may share orders, assignments, and resumes, etc without the need for expensive systems integration. Originally developed as part of a collaboration between Adecco, Kelly, Manpower, Randstad, The SFN Group and Vedior, HR-XML SIDES was donated to the HR-XML Consortium, an independent, non-profit, volunteer-led organization dedicated to the development and promotion of a standard suite of human resources XML specifications. HR-XML SIDES is available in English, French and Japanese.