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AC/E Digital Culture Annual Report 2015231many photographs from its collections to start up the Mindcraft initiative.39 This game also provides videos and interactive activities. These “digital stories” are aimed at introducing the user to this highly varied and atypical collection that combines medicine, life, and art of the past, present and future in an original manner and are a far cry from content designed for researchers. What is more, Mindcraft allows images to be downloaded under a Creative Commons licence, opting for free access and use of this cultural content.Without a doubt, a pioneering initiative in this area is Google Art Project. It began in 2011,by putting online 1,061 works from seventeen museums and offering virtual visits to institu- tions that are part of the project. Today it has more than 40,000 high-resolution images (7,000 megapixels) from more than 200 institutions all over the world. During its short lifetime, it has evolved by relating documents to the images and offering users the possibility of creating their own gallery and sharing it on their social media.In Spain institutions are increasingly digitising their content, albeit somewhat warily. Some of them are already using free licences that allow the use of images and documents with no further restrictions than avoidance of their com- mercial use, such as Acción Cultural Española, the Macba in Barcelona and the Museum Cemento Rézola in Guipúzcoa.As stated above, one of the pioneering institu- tions in making catalogues available online to be downloaded under a Creative Commons licence40 has been Acción Cultural Española. Indeed, the first digitised catalogues date backto 2011, and more than a hundred works are available from its website for non-commercial use. To download them, all users have to do is fill in a short form. The search is simple and easy and the results can be displayed by title (in alphabetical or reverse alphabetical order) or by year (in ascending or descending order).In 2014 the Fundación Juan March made available online all its catalogue published since 1973 by all three centres: Madrid, Cuenca and Palma de Mallorca. They bring together more than 27,000 pages, texts by more than 400 authors and 18,000 works by some 1,400 artists. The browser makes it possible to carry out interconnected searches of all the documents or specifically in each catalogue, as well as to filter searches by author, work, title or relevance. The documents are protected by copyright but can be used for non-commercial purposes, citing the authorship, or, in the case of images, without altering the watermark.The Museo del Prado has a digital gallery of more than 8,000 images which is used as a virtual tour. It proposes different itineraries and features a tutorial for users on how to make the most of their time. The tutorial provides various resources such as audio guides, sign guides and links to multimedia content stored in PradoMe- dia. The idea is to continue until the whole of the huge collection is digitised. These images are protected by copyright, and permission to use them must be requested from the museum.The IVAM was one of the first institutions to make its catalogues available online. Searches are carried out by title of the work, specifying the classification established on the website: a total2. Web technology