Brussels, 06/10/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Commission published two reports on Thursday 2 October urging cultural institutions in Europe to put more cultural heritage online with government support. The first report looks at how to digitise, make accessible and preserve culture online while the second explains how our film heritage can be rescued from rotting cans, thanks to digitisation. Europeana, the EU's digital museum, library and archive, already includes 33 million objects from hundreds of Europe's best museums and libraries, making it the largest and most significant digital cultural collection in the world. Digitisation, however, remains a challenge, with only a fraction of Europe's collections digitised so far (around 12% on average for libraries and less than 3% for films), the first report shows. The second deplores the lack of funding for putting films online. (IL)