There were a lot of plans and ideas that are not implemented for various reasons:

• I wanted to start a process of XBRL adoption in the local area and to convey the experience of it through the blog posts – No Understanding.
• I planned to interview more important persons from this field; also my idea was to expand the site content with the articles about Semantic Web – No Time.
• I planned to visit some important conferences and events and meet with important people in this area – No Money.

And then I decided to stop.

It’s time for me to dedicate more time and energy to my family, and to work on things that can provide us a source of livelihood.

So I’m going another way than XBRL.

Thank you all,
Ilija

• Prepare you XBRL fillings or download some valid fillings from SEC site.
• Download Altova StyleVision (30 days trial) and install it on your computer.
• Start Altova StyleVision and click File -> New -> New from XBRL Taxonomy.
• Point to you Taxonomy (Schema) document and click Open.
• Assign prepared Instance document by clicking Browse -> Open.
• On the left side of the screen you will get Schema Tree with available Elements, Concepts, Periods,…

• On the center of the screen is report designer.
• Type “My First Report” header in report designer and format it using Formatting toolbar.
• Drag one of the available concepts from Schema Tree under the report header.
• XBRL Table Wizard pops up – drag Period into Column Breakdown and Concepts into Row Breakdown. Click OK.

• You will get a table in report designer.
• If you click some of the Preview tabs you will render your report into appropriate format.
• Click File -> Save Generated Files -> … to create .xsl transformation for the choosen format.
• Project -> Save Project.

Demo-1: Demo of Using SEC EDGAR Information
Demo-2: Another SEC Demo: Public Float Information

You MUST READ THIS!!! before you start tagging!

Something very similar to xbrlplanet.org but in the form of excel spreadsheet.

AICPA – American Institute of Certified Public Accountants is the national, professional organization for all Certified Public Accountants (referring site: http://www.aicpa.org/).

EDGAR – Electronic Data-Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system, performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (referring site: http://www.edgar-online.com/).

GAAP – Generally accepted accounting principles is the standard framework of guidelines for financial accounting. It includes the standards, conventions, and rules accountants follow in recording and summarizing transactions, and in the preparation of financial statements (referring site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GAAP).

IASB – Independent Standard-Setting Board is appointed and overseen by a geographically and professionally diverse group of Trustees (IASC Foundation) who are accountable to the public interest Supported by an external advisory council (SAC) and an interpretations committee (IFRIC) to offer guidance where divergence in practice occurs (referring site: http://www.iasb.org/).

IFRS – International Financial Reporting Standard is accounting regulations developed to guarantee comparable balance sheet preparation and disclosure (referring site: http://www.ifrs.com/).

Instance document contain the actual content that is being reported, and are validated by XBRL taxonomies.

Linkbase (or link database) refers to a document that contains collections of inbound and third-party links. This is the subset of the XLink specification that enables XBRL documents to be built from a collection of taxonomies.

Meta-data is “data about data”, of any sort in any media. An item of metadata may describe an individual datum, or content item, or a collection of data including multiple content items and hierarchical levels, for example a database schema. In data processing, meta-data is definitional data that provides information about or documentation of other data managed within an application or environment.

Schema together with linkbases define an XBRL taxonomy. The purpose of XBRL schemas is to define taxonomy elements (concepts) and give each concept a name and define its characteristics. It can be regarded as a container where elements and references to “linkbase” files are defined.

SEC – Securities and Exchange Commission is an independent agency of the United States government which holds primary responsibility for enforcing the federal securities laws and regulating the securities industry, the nation’s stock and options exchanges, and other electronic securities markets (referring site: http://www.sec.gov/).

Taxonomy is derived from the Greek words taxis meaning arrangement or division and nomos meaning law. XBRL Taxonomies are dictionaries of business terms and their corresponding tags.

XBRL (eXtensible Business Reporting Language) is an open standard which supports information modeling and the expression of semantic meaning commonly required in business reporting (referring site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBRL).

XBRL International is a not-for-profit consortium of approximately 550 companies and agencies worldwide working together to build the XBRL language and promote and support its adoption (referring site: http://www.xbrl.org/).

XML – eXtensible Markup Language is a simple, very flexible text format derived from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere (referring site: http://www.w3.org/XML/).

• Classification standard editing software (Taxonomy editor)
• Examples of software documentation (Instance creator)
• Examples of the document browser software (Instance viewer)
• Examples of the document authentication software (Instance validator)
• File conversion software (Document converter)
• Version of the conversion software (Version converter)
• Financial analysis software (Analyzer)
• File audit software (Auditor)
• File search software (Searcher)
• XBRL GL applications

Check detail description of each item.

Read more…

More information can  be found on the journal’s website:
http://www.palgrave-journals.com/jdg/call_for_papers.html