The International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) Foundation today announced the release of its IFRS Taxonomy Module Manager (ITMM) for open source.

Based on XBRL technology, the ITMM provides an interactive graphical interface that guides users through the process of navigating the IFRS modules that make-up the IFRS Taxonomy. The ITMM afterwards returns an entry point (in the form of a schema or empty instance document) and the according Taxonomy; therefore a starting point for entity-specific extensions or direct filing.

The most recent version of the ITMM has been fully integrated with the IFRS Taxonomy viewer, supports additional translation linkbases and is ready to support the IFRS Taxonomy 2009 (which is currently available for public review until March 24). A fully deployed version of the ITMM is available at

The ITMM has been conceived with Open Source tools (Java, Groovy, Google Web Toolkit) and runs on Open Source servers (Apache Server, Tomcat). In order to support software developers, XBRL taxonomy developers (in particular IFRS Taxonomy extension developers) and the XBRL community in general, the ITMM has been developed in a generic way. Features such as the ITMM configuration XML file and ITMM properties file are adaptable to specific design requirements and specific XBRL taxonomies. The ITMM is distributed by the means of SourceForge under the Apache 2.0 Open Source license.

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The ITMM Open Source version comes with

---         All necessary Java, Groovy, Google Web Toolkit and supplementary source code, configuration files and styles, developed by the IASC Foundation XBRL Team

---         Comprehensive guidance such as

l          ITMM Developer Guide

l          ITMM Quick Setup Guide

l          JavaDoc comments on classes