The IFRS Taxonomy Modules Manager: an open source solution for managing and using modular taxonomies

Presenter: Lukas Pruschke

The IFRS Taxonomy Modules Manager (ITMM), which has been developed by the International Accounting Standards Committee (IASC) Foundation XBRL Team, uses the modularised structure of the IFRS Taxonomy to provide users with an interactive, user-friendly web interface for creating a custom set of modules from the IFRS Taxonomy. The ITMM offers convenient, supportive mechanisms such as different Taxonomy views, selection modes, rules and a search function, all of which enable users to easily browse and select IFRS Taxonomy modules.

The ITMM then creates and returns an entry point (either in the form of XBRL schema or instance file) and the according Taxonomy, which can then be used as a starting point for entity-specific extensions or direct filing. While building the ITMM, a generic and open-source based approach was taken in order to support software developers, XBRL taxonomy developers and the XBRL community in general. The ITMM has been conceived with Open Source tools (Java, Groovy, Google Web Toolkit) and runs on Open Source servers (Apache, Tomcat).

The ITMM also features generic configuration and property files which allow for specific XBRL taxonomies and design requirements. An Open Source version of the ITMM itself has been released on SourceForge under the Apache 2.0 Open Source license.

A fully deployed version of the ITMM is available at http://www.xbrl-ifrs.org/ITMM The Open Source distribution of ITMM is available at http://sourceforge.net/projects/itmm/