The Parliament’s Culture Committee calls for more books, maps, film clips and photograhs to be provided to the portal, and these should come from more countries, as well. The Committee says that member states’ contributions are very uneven. The site currently hosts only 5% of all digital books, with almost half coming from France, 16% from Germany and 8% from the UK and the Netherlands respectively.
The Committee’s report “urges the [European] Commission and member states to take all necessary steps to avoid a knowledge gap between Europe and non-EU countries, particularly the USA, stressing the importance of making Europeana “one of the main reference points for education and research purposes”.
