Well there’s exactly the sort of side-effect I meant, just as for me what’s interesting about Europeana is not the website but the pooled data and the solving of other problems along the way…to an awesome API. I dearly hope. And if NMOLP has broken down barriers between the digital departments of these (mainly) large institutions and perhaps laid the foundations for others to join in, that’s hidden value. Likewise the individual APIs each museum needed to provide for the federated search to work (even if a single API would be preferable)