W3C invites people to participate in a Workshop on Improving Aess to Financial Data on the Web on 5-6 October 2009 in Arlington, Virginia (USA). Workshop participants will discuss how to achieve greater transparency and more efficient reporting and analysis of business and financial data for mpanies and ernments. The Workshop is jointly anized by W3C and XBRL International, with hosting support from the Federal Deposit Insurance rporation (FDIC). The extensible business reporting language (XBRL), is being widely adopted all around the world, and is set to beme the standard way of rerding, storing and transmitting business financial information. While effort on XBRL so far has gone into developing the standards and taxonomies of reporting ncepts, mparatively little effort has been spent on how to exploit the expected flood of data.

The goal of the Workshop is to identify opportunities, use cases, and challenges for interactive aess to financial data expressed in XBRL and related languages, and the broader opportunities for using Semantic Web technologies. The Workshop is free of charge and open to anyone, subject to review of their statement of interest and space availability. Statements of interest (position papers) are due 21 August. See the call for participation for more information. Learn more about the Semantic Web.