Updates & Events

Posted Thursday, March 5, 2026

From Implicit to Explicit: How the OIM Cube Definition Transforms XBRL Data Modeling

By Campbell Pryde, President and CEO, XBRL US This is the third in our blog series describing the proposed features of the OIM Technical Specification. Our last blog described the importance of the enhanced specification to optimize the performance of LLMs. The new specification is also designed to drive greater efficiency in the reporting and […more]

Posted Wednesday, February 18, 2026

Creating a Cleaner Semantic Data Model for XBRL

By Scott Theis, President/CEO, Novaworks; Chair, XBRL US Domain Steering Committee (DSC); Leader, XBRL Technical Advisory Committee for XBRL US (XTAC); Member, XBRL Standards Board and OIM Working Group. In our last blog, Modernizing XBRL, we explored why the time is right to simplify and modernize the XBRL technical specification. One of the strongest forces […more]

Event date - Friday, May 15, 2026

AI and Structured Data Forum: Optimizing Performance

This in-person event co-produced by the Center for Research toward Advancing Financial Technologies (CRAFT) and XBRL US, will explore how the use of structured, standardized data improves the ability of large language models to accurately, consistently understand financial and business information.

Posted Thursday, January 22, 2026

Modernizing XBRL

By Scott Theis, President/CEO, Novaworks; Chair, XBRL US Domain Steering Committee (DSC); Leader, XBRL Technical Advisory Committee for XBRL US (XTAC); Member, XBRL Standards Board and OIM Working Group. XBRL is modernizing and simplifying. The XBRL community has begun laying the groundwork for a new XBRL technical specification that can be put in place to […more]

Posted Tuesday, December 9, 2025

Artificial intelligence thrives on structure.

Agency-specific FDTA rules need to make sure the data they collect is AI-ready. AI shines when given access to richly contextualized, standardized, structured data and identifiers. While Large Language Models (LLMs) can source any kind of data, structured or unstructured, for financial analysis and research that demands a high degree of accuracy, structure and standardization […more]

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2025

Resources for Extracting Machine-Readable Data

XBRL US Members and others using our Public Filings Database and the XBRL API know extracting data from machine-readable reports yields a wealth of granularity for unambiguous analysis. Extraction involves an XBRL processor – software that reads tagged facts and interprets them according to the taxonomies defined for the report. Altova’s MapForce and XMLSpy feature […more]

Event date - Friday, December 5, 2025

Data Standards Forum: Advancing Semantic Intelligence

Join standards organizations, government agency representatives, technologists, and software companies in Washington, DC, to share ideas, brainstorm, and plan for the future of open data standards in a changing technology and regulatory world.

Event date - Thursday, July 31, 2025

GovFin 2025: Designing a Digital Future

Join us online for the Third Annual GovFin Conference!

Free livestream – Fireside Chat with Dave Sanchez of the SEC, courtesy of DFIN

Every municipal market stakeholder should have a seat at the table to ensure the efficient rollout of digital reporting for municipal bond issuance. This practical, hands-on conference will discuss challenges and practical approaches to helping municipal market players efficiently implement the Financial Data Transparency Act (FDTA).

Posted Monday, June 3, 2024

Preliminary Call for Papers: 2026 RAST-IASB Conference

The Review of Accounting Studies (RAST) Editors, in collaboration with the International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), has announced a preliminary Call for Papers for the 2026 RAST-IASB Conference. Research using XBRL tags is of specific interest.

RAST will begin accepting submissions in January 2026.

Posted Monday, April 15, 2024

Intensive Data and Analytics Workshop V

This event is produced by the American Accounting Association and is being held at the Emory Conference Center Hotel, June 24-27, 2024

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