Perspectives By building a resource of openly licenced, interlinked museum images that can be accessed via handheld devices we wish to send a steady stream of digitised art out into the Internet, allowing it to be shared, commented on, processed creatively, and used for learning and teaching. HintMe is intended to be a miniature hub for open Danish art collections – a first step in the direction of providing open access to a major resource of highquality Danish museum images. The intention is not to build an actual infrastructure for the free exchange of digitised culture – such an infrastructure is being developed on a large scale in the form of Europeana. As Jill Cousins says in her article (p. 132 ff), Europeana is working towards developing a European cultural commons aimed at gathering and making digitised culture from all European cultures freely available. With its obligation and dedication to inter-institutional collaboration, democratic dialogue with users, and open licences on high-resolution images, HintMe has attracted attention within Europeana. Free data is one thing, and within this field Europeana has firmly set a new standard. However, if we look specifically at freely available, reusable high-quality images, only few European cultural institutions have begun opening up their vaults. Even though HintMe only shares a few hundred images as yet, the fact that 9 art museums have agreed to apply open licences to their content nevertheless sends a strong signal. The project has been used as an example of the direction that Europeana wishes to pursue, and it has given Danish art museums a place in Europeana’s work to develop a cultural commons.69
From metro fence to aesthetic playground Copenhagen is currently expanding its public metro network. Up until 2018 a series of areas in the city are effectively converted into building sites, a fact which quite naturally causes some inconvenience and exasperation for many Copenhageners. One of the steps taken to counteract this is called Cool Construc-
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