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This report documents the availability of the Automatic Verification Tool (AVT) that is used in the translation research activities of Task 4.3 of the SSHOC project. The task team describes the role of the milestone and the means of verification.

Quantitative surveys play an important and imperative role in studying and learning about the integration and inclusion experiences of ethnic and migrant minorities (EMM). Unfortunately, such data have not always been easy to locate or access for both research and policymaking purposes. The EMM (Ethnic and Migrant Minority) Survey Registry is, hence, a direct response to this challenge, as its main objective is to make quantitative surveys undertaken with EMM populations ‘FAIR’ (Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, Re-usable). The EMM Survey Registry is a free online discovery tool that displays detailed information (i.e. metadata) about existing quantitative sample-based surveys conducted with EMM populations in Europe. Jointly developed by SSHOC, the COST Action 16111 – ETHMIGSURVEYDATA (a network of 200 plus EMM researchers across Europe), and the French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)-funded project FAIRETHMIGQUANT, the EMM Survey Registry promotes the FAIR principles and provides a concrete example of how an interdisciplinary data community can drive the creation of a FAIR-friendly tool for the social sciences using a bottom up, collaborative approach for the benefit of a wide range of stakeholders. The EMM Survey Registry is intended for use by researchers, policymakers, and other practitioners in their own research and/or policy-related activities. As a model of co-creation, it will also be of interest to data communities committed to making their data FAIR, to data curation actors looking to partner or connect with data producers or users for whom they can tailor their current data curation services, and to policy-makers working on open research and open data initiatives.

This report serves as deliverable D1.2 of the SmartCulTour Horizon 2020 project (grant agreement number 870708) which is aimed at supporting regional development in all European regions with important tangible and intangible cultural assets, including those located in rural peripheries and the urban fringe, through sustainable cultural tourism. This report aims to provide an overview of the specific policy recommendations that originate from two particular tasks in the SmartCulTour project: re-conceptualization of (sustainable) cultural tourism and expectations concerning future trends and developments (WP2), and identification of state-of-the-art interventions in cultural tourism towards sustainable development (WP3). The report starts by recognizing the potential of cultural tourism in Europe and specifically its framing as a driver for sustainable development and smart regional growth. However, due to an ongoing lack of comprehensive evidence on the benefits of cultural heritage and the observation that, in many countries, cultural tourism is not yet adequately measured, the policy report pays attention to two particular issues: 1. The conceptual fluidity of cultural heritage and, by extension, cultural tourism; 2. The lack of structural evidence on the holistic benefits of cultural heritage for a destination. In this report we first focus on the question of conceptualization, and through analysis of existing definitional frameworks, propose contemporary definitions to frame cultural tourism in all its aspects as: ���a form of tourism in which visitors engage with heritage, local cultural and creative activities and the everyday cultural practices of host communities for the purpose of gaining mutual experiences of an educational, aesthetic, creative, emotional and/or entertaining nature��� (Matteucci & Von Zumbusch, 2020, p.19). Secondly, the policy report presents both workflow and results of an extensive case-study analysis on cultural tourism interventions throughout Europe, both in terms of resources used and in terms of generated (or expected) outcomes in order to provide more robust findings on the multiple benefits of cultural tourism. The five main purposes for cultural tourism interventions that were recognized were: (1) to protect, restore, safeguard and promote, (2) to develop and innovate, (3) to interpret, understand and disseminate, (4) to involve and connect, (5) to manage and influence. While the list does not necessarily need to be considered as exhaustive, and can depend on the non-random case study selection, the typology helps in describing situations and challenges that are typical of each intervention category and can therefore inform policy makers on selecting appropriate cultural tourism projects. At the end of the report, a number of policy recommendations are given, both on conceptualization and operationalization, and on methodological recommendations that can be followed by Destination Management Organizations and policy makers to collect additional primary research data.

As defined in the SSHOC workplan, task 2.3 SSHOC web presence will cover all activities related to the design, development, roll-out and continuous update of the SSHOC web presence. An evolved SSHOC web platform will ensure a service-oriented approach to the SSHOC marketplace developed in WP7 and will act as the main project entry point providing a multi-view of the SSH landscape, according to the main research lines of the ERICs involved, namely Art and Humanities, Social Science, Linguistics. The SSHOC web platform will be conceived and structured to ensure visibility and easy access to the technologies and services resulting from WP3, as well as innovation mechanisms in data production (WP4), use cases (WP5) and training materials (WP6), targeting data producers and data re-users in the SSH disciplines, as well as industry players. The web platform will also serve as main repository for all published content and allow access to project deliverables and external resources. It will have specific sections dedicated to events and workshops; it may feature sections to collect user feedback and online surveys. It will be able to optionally host any software repository developed within SSHOC and will provide direct access points to the ERICs websites and other relevant websites, existing catalogues and virtual labs. This task will also provide branding for the Marketplace (WP7) and offer support to improve its Graphical User Interface (GUI) and end-user friendliness. Specific branding of the new services will also be provided, making their look & feel homogeneous under the SSHOC umbrella. In M36, December 2021, the fifth iteration of the SSHOC web platform was achieved (Milestone 7), this document will outline the milestone, its role and the means of verification to its achievement. This document was written in M40, upon the finalisation of the SSHOC project.

There is no shortage of existing web survey platforms. Generally, along with user-friendly questionnaire design tools, they allow users to manage lists of contacts to which surveys may be distributed through different communication channels. However, for the fielding of cross-national high quality surveys, major shortcomings remain. First, access to panelist data should be confined to local national coordinators, and while it needs to be kept up to date, probably not all of it is appropriate to be shared with a third-party survey platform. Second, survey orchestration should be handled centrally (at the so-called ‘headquarter’ level), but without detailed access to individual panelist data. Third, contact modes with panelists not only must include both email and SMS, but they should be possible to freely intertwine during fieldwork: for example, sending an email invite and an SMS reminder. A review of existing survey platforms showed that none would meet these three constraints single-handedly. Hence the need for a dedicated sample management layer that, paired with a survey platform, makes a whole that is fit to meet the needs of cross-national and centrally orchestrated surveys. That is precisely the gap that WPSS tries to fill.

The SSH Training Discovery Toolkit (���Toolkit��� in short) is an inventory of various learning and training materials that trainers of different disciplines in the SSH can use to find materials for re-use in their own training. The Toolkit links to a variety of materials available through various sources on topics including Open Science, Research Data Management, and didactics, but also specific topics that are relevant to multiple disciplines, like text encoding and spatial data. While the Toolkit does not store the resources themselves, it contains access links that redirect the user to the resource in question. The Toolkit is a work in progress and currently contains more than 180 items from 78 different sources on the above-mentioned topics for better development and implementation of training activities.

The Automatic Verification Tool (AVT) enables the user to verify translations using Bilingual Word Embeddings and to report to the translators a set of translated questions to be re-checked. The AVT imports the questions and makes use of a trained Bilingual Word Embeddings model. It generates the 10 best foreign language translations of each English word. If one of the best translations is in the human foreign language translation it marks the word pair as matched. By measuring the number of matched word pairs it estimates the translation quality. It stores the translation quality scores and reports them to the user.

The management of multi-dimensional and multi-format data for documenting cultural heritage artefacts induces new challenges, such as the development of relevant analysis and interpretation methods, the sharing and correlation of heterogeneous data among several actors and contexts, and the centralised archiving of documentation results for long-term preservation purposes. Therefore, managing heterogeneous data raises the need for a stable denominator (from a conceptual and technical point of view) for structuring data and annotations coming from a continuous process of observation and analysis carried out by multiple actors.