http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1189Introducing 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.)Sat, 21 Apr 2007 01:17:51 GMTVirtuoso Universal Server 08.03.3334Kingsley Uyi Idehenhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/weblog/public/images/vbloglogo.gifhttp://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1189I have seen the future and it's full of Linked Data! :-)8831 http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1189#4507http://www.openlinksw.com:443/blog/kidehen@openlinksw.com/blog/?id=1189#4507ding@cs.byu.eduSat, 21 Apr 2007 22:55:36 GMTKingsley, I may like to point you to the MUSING project launched by several EU companies and research institutes. In this project, they have also started building XBRL ontologies.