http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/08/15/a-midsummer-review-of-recent-xbrl-developments/ XBRL News and Commentary from the Hitachi XBRL Business Unit Tue, 06 Jan 2009 12:11:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/08/15/a-midsummer-review-of-recent-xbrl-developments/#comment-14452 Eric E. Cohen Sat, 23 Aug 2008 11:52:16 +0000 http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/08/15/a-midsummer-review-of-recent-xbrl-developments/#comment-14452 One more thing that happened this summer was the release of the OMG "UML Profile for XBRL Global Ledger (GL) RFI" - a cross-consortium, collaborative effort seeking people interested in formal models for ERP data and looking for resources to develop UML models - and a UML Profile - of XBRL GL. More information can be found at http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?finance/2008-5-1 ; responses are requested by 1 September ; and the next step is the OMG meeting in Orlando (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/orlando/info.htm). One more thing that happened this summer was the release of the OMG “UML Profile for XBRL Global Ledger (GL) RFI” - a cross-consortium, collaborative effort seeking people interested in formal models for ERP data and looking for resources to develop UML models - and a UML Profile - of XBRL GL. More information can be found at http://www.omg.org/cgi-bin/doc?finance/2008-5-1 ; responses are requested by 1 September ; and the next step is the OMG meeting in Orlando (http://www.omg.org/news/meetings/tc/orlando/info.htm).

]]> http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/08/15/a-midsummer-review-of-recent-xbrl-developments/#comment-14212 Anonymouse XBRL User Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:22:15 +0000 http://hitachidatainteractive.com/2008/08/15/a-midsummer-review-of-recent-xbrl-developments/#comment-14212 Regarding (4) - that KPMG online XBRL course is, unfortunately, WAY outdated. It covers "Closed World Assumption," so it is pre-2.1 Specification (pre-2003). No Dimensional support, so it won't help the with the US GAAP Taxonomy. Very nicely done, and from a non-technical POV it is an introduction to many XBRL concepts. Regarding (4) - that KPMG online XBRL course is, unfortunately, WAY outdated. It covers “Closed World Assumption,” so it is pre-2.1 Specification (pre-2003). No Dimensional support, so it won’t help the with the US GAAP Taxonomy. Very nicely done, and from a non-technical POV it is an introduction to many XBRL concepts.

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