Publication
The xEBR Ontology: Transforming the XBRL Europe Business Register Taxonomy into an OWL Ontology
Hans-Ulrich Krieger; Thierry Declerck
In: Proceedings of the 26th XBRL International Conference. International XBRL Conference (XBRL-26), April 16-18, Dublin, Ireland, XBRL International, 2013.
Abstract
We describe work carried out in the European projects MONNET and TrendMiner
which deal in part with the extraction of company data from stock exchange
pages and machine-readable financial reporting documents (XBRL) and its
representation in a semantic repository on which inferences and queries are
carried out.
The special focus of this paper lies on the construction of the xEBR
ontology that we have constructed from the latest xEBR taxonomy (version 7),
using the Semantic Web knowledge representation language OWL,
a member of the Description Logic Family.
We describe our design decisions why the underlying structure of the ontology
should be regarded as a partonomy and not as a subtype hierarchy.
We also present showcases highlighting the benefits of bringing xEBR reports
and company snapshots together, using semantic technologies.