BLOG: Digital Financial Reporting
This is a blog for information relating to digital financial reporting. This blog is basically my "lab notebook" for experimenting and learning about XBRL-based digital financial reporting. This is my brain storming platform. This is where I think out loud (i.e. publicly) about digital financial reporting. This information is for innovators and early adopters who are ushering in a new era of accounting, reporting, auditing, and analysis in a digital environment.
Much of the information contained in this blog is synthasized, summarized, condensed, better organized and articulated in my book XBRL for Dummies and in the chapters of Intelligent XBRL-based Digital Financial Reporting. If you have any questions, feel free to contact me.
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LKIF Core Legal Ontology
LKIF Core Legal Ontology (Legal Knowledge Interchange Format) is a library of ontologies relevant to the legal domain. This paper discusses the ontology.




Algorithm = Logic + Control
Robert Kowalski: Algorithm = Logic + Control
This link has the full paper.
Automation is defined as, "Automation is the technology by which a process or procedure is performed with minimal human assistance."
Algorithms is how automation is implemented.




Enterprise Knowledge Graph Principles
The Enterprise Knowledge Graph Foundation has published a set of principles for an Enterprise Knowledge Graph (EKG).
A knowledge graph is one approach to storing information within a knowledge base. The article, What is a Knowledge Graph? is an explanation of what a knowledge graph is (and isn't) and the difference between a knowledge base and a database. You can download the knowledge base GraphDB here. This is a quick start guide for GraphDB. Or, you can fiddle around in the Neo4j Sandbox here.
This is an excellent article that explains why graph databases are the future of databases. This is excellent information aboug GSQL which is a graph query language.
Ontology + Data = Knowledge Graph
A Brief History of Knowledge Graph's Main Ideas: A Tutorial
Introduction to Knowledge the Graph
Creating a small knowlege graph video series:




TigerGraph
TigerGraph is a graph database. Why should you use a graph database? Get the answer to that question here. This eBook provides a more detailed explanation.
There is a cloud version of TigerGraph and you can get a free login and create one free database.
This video walks you through creating a movies graph database. Here is a link to the data set used in the video.
I was able to do all of this except write the queries. Interesting stuff.
This is a starter kit for learning TigerGraph.




The JazzCode
Carl Stormer explains the notion of the JazzCode, how expert teams communicate in turbulence. Efficiency is not as important as effect. Sometimes you have to go in a direction than you thought you were going to go.



