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Journal Entry
on April 18, 2010
This is a series of posts where I am providing information relating to figuring out what the best data format to use and why. Basically, when is XML better, when is XBRL better, and when is RDF/OWL better.
If you have been working with computers as long as I have you have likely run across many d ...
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Journal Entry
on December 26, 2009
Like I had mentioned in several other blog posts, I have been fiddling around with RDF and OWL to try and understand what RDF and OWL can be used for and how they relate to XBRL.
Well, I have some initial prototypes which I was able to put together:
Prototype Ontologies : These are some protot ...
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Journal Entry
on March 16, 2015
It is slow going, but progress is being made toward achieving an RDF/OWL representation of a financial report. If you are interested in this you may want to follow the Semantic XBRL group on LinkedIn . Here is information helpful to this process.
Financial report in XBRL : This is what I call a ...
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Journal Entry
on July 2, 2013
This blog post is part of a project on the Semantic XBRL group in LinkedIn. The goal of the project is to convert some XBRL formatted digital financial information into RDF/OWL. The intent is to use the proper financial report semantics to structure the RDF, enforce that structure to the extent pos ...
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Journal Entry
on November 5, 2012
This metadata stuff keeps getting more and more interesting. A post I made to the LinkedIn group Semantic XBRL led to someone mentioning SKOS.
SKOS, or Simple Knowledge Organization System is a standard way to express metadata. A W3C recommentation , is described this way by an introduction to SK ...
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Journal Entry
on January 9, 2010
This is another step in the journey of understanding OWL, RDF, and how they relate to XBRL. You can see other blog posts relating to this here .
OK, so I think I am getting more and more dialed in as to what OWL, RDF, and XBRL offers. At this point I am not totally sure about this. Consider th ...
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Journal Entry
on April 23, 2010
This blog post summarizes several other blog posts. It may seem rather stream of consciousness and be along the lines of brainstorming, if it does that is because that is what this blog post is. I am summarizing this information to help myself understand it and learn to better communicate it to ot ...
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Journal Entry
on April 22, 2010
This is a series of posts where I am providing information relating to figuring out what the best data format to use and why. Basically, when is XML better, when is XBRL better, and when is RDF/OWL better.
I have posted a number of blog entries relating to RDF, OWL, and the Semantic Web which you ...
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Journal Entry
on December 29, 2009
I am continuing to fiddle around with RDF/OWL. I updated my little index page which summarizes my brainstorming . I added an RSS feed to enable grabbing all of the ontologies with an application. In doing that a question that popped into my mind is whether the "RSS feed" really should also be an o ...
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Journal Entry
on May 10, 2012
Over the years I have done a lot of fiddling around with RDF/OWL in trying to grasp how to best make use of XBRL. Just as XBRL is a tool, RDF/OWL is a tool. As is said, "If the only tool you have in your toolbox is a hammer, then everything looks like a nail." Not that having a big tool box and ...
