The International Journal of Business and Systems Research has released an article entitled XBRL, semantic web and web services. The article is available here for a fee. The abstract states, “Computer and information technology innovations have revolutionised how business is conducted and how information is exchanged across systems. Technologies, such as eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL), semantic web and web services, have emerged to transform the landscape of business information provision, exchange and consumption.” Read more

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The software that runs computers is getting smarter every day. Semantic technology allows computers to understand the meaning of words —content and context— helping put users in touch with the right information at the right time.

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MetaMoJi Announces Launch of MashIQ XBRL Analysis and Reporting Solution PR-CANADA.net (press release) … and published through the internet. MetaMoJi Corporation acquired the entire XBRL, advanced XML handing, and semantic technologies from JustSystems.

Innovation in this market is a mixed bag and most of it is below the radar. There is some movement at the consumer level with very simple legal templates. At the other extreme, there is a visionary attempt to make all legal information open source, called Law.gov. We also see movement in the legal work for early stage venture financing; while this is small, it is interesting because this is a community that does not shy away from innovation. In other areas where we would expect to see progress, such as legal xml, very little is happening.

This matter to all of us. The law is “the operating system of business”. It has to work right and it has to be open and low cost.

Read on to see how we might get a better operating system for business.

(Photo: Mike Atkins/Flickr)

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XBRL: Accounting Geeks Get Radical ReadWriteWeb (blog) Yes, that sounds like the semantic Web, and we all know that has faced the chicken-and-egg problem (ie not enough content is semantically tagged yet). …

One on One with Diane Mueller, XBRL expert at Just Systems FierceContentManagement That said, I see a new genre of products on the horizon that will enable consumers to leverage social networking, mash-up and semantic technologies to …

India Carbon Outlook, India’s First Carbon Focused Information … PR Newswire (press release) India Carbon Outlook is also putting together a working group to build the taxonomy for Carbon XBRL and also to build a linked-data repository of URIs being … and more »

W3C and XBRL International have announced the organization of a Workshop on “Improving Access to Financial Data on the Web”. From the Call for Paper:

The goal of this workshop is to identify opportunities and challenges for interactive access to financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the broader opportunities for semantic technologies. What are the use cases? Who are the stakeholders? What are the potential roadblocks and how can they be addressed? How can new applications be created based upon integrating XBRL with other sources of information?

The main outcome of the workshop will be the publication of a report that will serve as a guide for further work in both W3C and XBRL International.

The Workshop will take place in Arlington, Virginia, on the 5-6 October, 2009. The Workshop is co-organized by W3C and XBRL International, and is hosted by FDIC.

JustSystems Unveils xfy XBRL Report at 19 th XBRL International … Business Wire (press release), CA Details are as follows: W3C & XBRL International Joint Session: on “XBRL and Semantic Web” – Dave Raggett, JustSystems-sponsored W3C Fellow, will be facilitating a discussion about the tremendous potential for analyzing and exploring vast amounts of …

Is Your Investor Relations Web Site Ready For XBRL? ECM Connection (press release), PA However, these data sources are highly normalized, disconnected from the source and lack any semantic annotations. In greater detail, these data sources are fed by automated screen-scraper aggregation applications culling information from the HTML or …