XBRL Metadata Repository and Continuous Data Mining

XBRL uses internationally accepted network financial reporting standards to create a taxonomy which is allowed an exchangeable and extraction of data across all software and technologies. It make enterprise metadata repository involving XBRL metadata became one of the important research issues. The requirements of metadata management for XBRL documents and continuous data mining are described. Then a meta-model and architecture for a metadata repository and data mining are proposed, that are capable of storing and managing a cohesive enterprise view of metadata, maintaining integrity based on XBRL semantics, and integrating XBRL metadata to support continuous data mining process.