XBRL: It’s Context Baby!

December 1st, 2009 by Stewart McKie - Executive Advisor

In a recent blog post, Reinventing the Business Intelligence Process, Michael Vizard highlights the importance of adding context to data as it is collected rather than after the fact. And preferably in a reasonably automated way. So it’s easy to forget that this is something that XBRL, and indeed any taxonomy-based data tagging paradigm, can be used for. Read the rest of this entry »