Mike, I´m writing this so you´ll get a heads up who the swedish blogger is who´s linking to this post. In Sweden there´s now, after years of angsting about copyright issues and overcoming institutional inertia (sound familiar?), a common museum collections index with an open API: http://www.kulturarvsdata.se .

The API and data are just recently released into the wild and of course there´s some discussion on what kind of services could and and should be built on top of it an by whom. Just a month after its relases a private company has built a location aware service allowing users to find info on archaeological sites and monuments via their mobiles. There are community sites under construction some which are similar in concept to Creative Spaces which is why I linked to this blog. Another related discussion is of course whether museums and other heritage instituitions should build communities themeselves or release parts of their data to already existiing communites e.g. Flickr The Commons and engage with users there.

It´s interesting to see how the discussion in the English speaking is mirrored in Sweden – and I guess elsewhere but my French, German, Italian, Castellan etc. isn´t all that.