• “Gaiaverse: the Gaia's outreach portal” (E. Masana). Oral presentation about Gaiverse portal in the XII Scientific Meeting of the Spanish Astronomical Society, Bilbao (Spain) July 2016. Published on http://www.sea-astronomia.es/drupal/sites/default/files/archivos/proceedings12/divulgacion/ORALES/masanae.pdf

• development of 3D scatter plot panel for Archive web visualisation portal
• Bug identification and fixing
• Increased software test coverage

• The third testbed, D6.6 Deployment of third public science alerts prototype, was released in Oct 2016. See http://gsaweb.ast.cam.ac.uk/alerts/home
• A range of improvements to the alerts testbed were implemented, especially in the development of the alerts publishing infrastructure. Paper describing this presented at ADASS XXVI (Oct 2016 http://www.adass2016.inaf.it/index.php/participants-all/4-poster/24-delgado).

• Organisation of the publication of the DR1 validation in an A&A paper
• Participation to the Tokyo Gaia-JASMINE joint meeting

• Hambly took part in the Gaia DPAC CU9 DR2 kick-off meeting to represent WP3 interests (minutes available on the Gaia DPAC Wiki here)

• Voutsinas made final adjustments to the ADQL auto-complete library for ESDC development team to integrate into the Gaia archive

• IVOA compliance document (D3.3) drafted
• draft documentation for client-side TAP publishing software from INAF completed

• Testing documentation drafted and available on DPAC SVN here (part of deliverables D3.4 - D3.6)

• Morris, Voutsinas and Hambly finalised the Astronomy & Computing paper concerning use of "Docker" for astronomical software
• GENIUS interface demonstrator redeployed in Docker containers as a proof-of-concept and looking ahead to secure deployment in Data Centres such as ESDC

• At 19th Oct, Gaia data release from naoj is open. (http://jvo.nao.ac.jp/portal/gaia.do)
• From 6th to 9th Dec, Yamada organize Gaia-JASMINE joint meeting at Tokyo. About 40 participants attend the meeting. Meeting web page is http://www.jasmine-galaxy.org/meetings/gaia-jasmine.html. 8 Gaia person visited to Tokyo, and 5 GENIUS participants' (Mora, Hobbs, Prusti, Loefler, Lammers) travel fee is covered by money of Kyoto University. Also 3 Japanese participants' (Yamada, Hozumi, Nakagawa) travel fee is covered by money of Kyoto University. Other 3 Gaia participants (Luri, Arenou, Brown) visit Tokyo by their own GENIUS money.

• From 6th to 9th Dec, Yamada organize Gaia-JASMINE joint meeting at Tokyo. About 40 participants attend the meeting. Meeting web page is http://www.jasmine-galaxy.org/meetings/gaia-jasmine.html. 8 Gaia person visited to Tokyo, and 5 GENIUS participants' travel fee is covered by money of Kyoto University. Also 3 Japanese participants' travel fee is covered by money of Kyoto University. Other 3 Gaia participants visit Tokyo by their own GENIUS money.

• Hypki end his GENIUS contract as of 2016-11-30 and moved to a new position in Poland.
• Brown participated in the GENIUS Gaia-JASMINE meeting in Tokyo Japan, where he presented an overview of the DPAC data processing status.

http://gaiaverse.eu/home/

Top five languages are: English (39.95%), Portuguese (15.20%), German (11.88), Spanish (8.35%) and French (3.91%). The reason behind having Portuguese at the 2n position may be explained as a consequence of having added this new language by the end of September 2016.

Traffic on Gaiaverse during this period has been represented as follows:

• Organic search: 41.42%
• Direct: 35.76%
• Referral: 15.17%
• Social: 7.65%

• October: tweets (2), tweet impressions (2,667), profile visits (313), mentions (3), new followers (5), total number of followers in October 2016 (410).
• November 16: tweets (2), tweet impressions (1,460), profile visits (199), mentions (5), new followers (0), total number of followers in November 2016 (410).
• December 16: tweets (2), tweet impressions (5,788), profile visits (327), mentions (3), new followers (3), total number of followers in December 2016 (413).

Summary of activities October 2016 - December 2016

WP1 - Management

WP2 - User community

WP3 - System design

T3.1 Technical Coordination

T3.2 Aspects of archive interface design

T3.3 VO infrastructure

T3.4 Data Centre collaboration

T3.5 Data mining environments

WP4 - Data Exploitation

T4.2 - Visualization

T4.3 - Data Mining

T4.4 - VO tools and services

WP5 - Validation

T5.1 - Technical coordination

T5.2 - Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools

T5.3 - Simulation versus reality: from models to observables

T5.4 - Confronting Gaia to external archives

T5.5 - Data demining: outlier analysis

T5.6 - Transversal tools for special objects

WP6 - Support

T6.2-Simulated Catalogue

T6.3-Science Alerts testbed

WP7 - Dissemination

T7.1 - Coordination of dissemination activities

T7.2 - Community portal infrastructure

T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities