Booktailor, a project funded by Bertelsmann, was an innovative bespoke publishing service. It enabled consumers to tailor-make their own travel guides from a wide range of licensed content from providers such as Lonely Planet, the Financial Times, whatsonwhen.com, Harden's Restaurant Guides and Frommer's. The packaged architecture and publishing solution was also syndicated to lastminute.com and teletext.com.
The system used semi-automated XML tagging, data-mining, content management and print-on-demand PDF technologies to dynamically and almost instantly create individualised books and ebooks.
Julius Honnor worked as Editorial Systems Manager at Booktailor. As well as content management and taxonomies, he had charge of the development, operation and remodelling of the conversion, data-mining and database systems, and was the point of interaction between editorial and technical departments.