Wikitravel Press Blog

Old Buchmesse hands say that Wednesday is when the action is, but not for us — here every day at the Fair just seems to get busier!  So much so that today’s blog entry is going to be a short one.

But I had the time to nip out and meet up with the EU Latitude project, who have set out to create a database of travel information that aims to cover all of Europe in many languages, all available in a unified XML format for easy syndication to other devices.  It’s not the first time this has been tried, and indeed some larger travel publishers already offer commercial systems for licensing their own proprietary content, but the really interesting bit is that those parts of the content contributed or paid for by local tourism authorities are planned to be licensed under Creative Commons.  I have to emphasize that “planned to be”, because they’re having some problems convincing wary travel publishers of this bit, so drop them a line at Contact Us and let them know what you think!

Today was the last trade visitors’ day, and tomorrow the Fair opens up to the public.  I doubt there will be too many crowds in the Scientific Publishing section, but the already intense crowds in the hallways and at lunchtime aren’t going to get any better…