XBRL-based structured digital financial reporting - Blog: Digital Financial Reporting (using XBRL)

The bottom line is this. Semantic technologies allow for:

straight application of knowledge in the production process through application ontologies; there is near to no entropy involved
description and management of processes
unambiguous descriptions through glossaries, context, knowledge models whereby concepts are explained through their relation to other concepts
knowledge engineering
knowledge representation
reading by men and machines
interoperability constructs and formats
version control on the level of descriptions and operations
knowledge generation on top of asserted knowledge
support the growing attention for openness in public administrations (open data)
coping with the above mentioned issues