Introducing the XBRL Ontology Project.
The
XBRL Ontology Project seeks to address the obvious need to
bring structured financial data into the emerging Semantic Data Web
as articulated in this excerpt from the inaugural mailing list
post:
The parallel evolution of XBRL and the Semantic Web is one
of the more puzzling current day technology misnomers:
The Semantic Web expresses a vision about a Web of Data
connected by formal meaning (Context). Congruently, XBRL espouses a
vision whereby by formally defined Financial Data is accessible via
the Web (and other networks). Sadly, we have an abundance of XBRL
Taxonomies, pretty wide adoption of the XBRL standard globally, but
not a single RDFS Schema or OWL Ontology, derived from said
taxonomies, in sight!
Read
on..."
(Via XBRL
Ontology Specification Group Google Group.)