This document is a review draft. Readers are invited to submit comments to the Taxonomy Architecture Guidance Task Force.
Table of Contents
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Taxonomy publication
- 3 Taxonomy Package information
- 3.1 Taxonomy description
- 3.1.1 Identifier [tp:identifier]
- 3.1.2 Name [tp:name] (multilingual)
- 3.1.3 Version [tp:version]
- 3.1.4 Description [tp:description] (multilingual)
- 3.1.5 License [tp:license]
- 3.1.6 Publisher name [tp:publisher] (multilingual)
- 3.1.7 Publisher URL [tp:publisherURL]
- 3.1.8 Publisher Country [tp:publisherCountry]
- 3.1.9 Date of issue [tp:publicationDate]
- 3.1.10 Entry point [tp:entryPoint]
- 3.1.11 Superseded Taxonomy Packages
- 3.2 Remapping of taxonomy files
- 3.1 Taxonomy description
- 4 Example Taxonomy Package
1 Introduction
This document describes best practices for publishing XBRL taxonomies, including detail on information that should be provided as part of an XBRL Taxonomy Package. This guidance is primarily for taxonomy owners and data collectors who want to make sure that taxonomy users can understand the taxonomies they publish.2 Taxonomy publication
Taxonomies are usually publicly accessible. They are generally published on an official web site to be freely accessed, read by compliant software applications and used by preparers of XBRL reports. In order to help users of the taxonomy, it is recommended that taxonomies are provided in two formats:The full article is exclusively accessible to members of XBRL International.
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