Europe's insurance register linked to the GLEIF RDF dataset

Posted on za 08 januari 2022 in Blog • Tagged with linked-data, rdf, EIOPA, xbrl, GLEIF

Number 7 of my New Year's Resolutions list reads "only use and provide linked data". So, to start the year well, I decided to do a little experiment to combine insurance undertakings register data with publicly available legal entity data. In concrete terms, I wanted to provide the European insurance …


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EIOPA's Solvency 2 taxonomy in RDF

Posted on vr 18 juni 2021 in Blog • Tagged with linked-data, rdf, EIOPA, xbrl

To use the metadata from XBRL taxonomies, like labels, hierarchies, template structures and formulas, often licensed software is needed to process the taxonomy and convert the XML content to readable formats. In an earlier blog I have shown that it is useful to convert XBRL instance data to a linked …


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Converting XBRL to RDF-star

Posted on wo 31 maart 2021 in Blog • Tagged with linked-data, rdf, rdf-star, xbrl

Lately I have been working on the conversion of XBRL instances and related taxonomy schemas and linkbases to RDF and RDF-star. In these semantic data formats, you can link data in XBRL data with other data sources and you can query the data in a fairly easy manner. RDF-star is …


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Converting supervisory reports to Semantic Webs: from XBRL to RDF

Posted on wo 28 oktober 2020 in Blog • Tagged with linked-data, rdf, xbrl

A growing number of supervisory reports across Europe are based on the XML Extensible Business Reporting Language standard (XBRL). Financial entities such as banks, insurance undertakings and pension institutions are required to submit their reports to their supervisors in this format.

XBRL is a language for modeling, exchanging and automatically …


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