GENIUS Reporting

Summary of activities December 2013 - February 2014

100 - Management

• Participation in the 1st Gaia Archive Workshop (27-29 November 2013) - Luri
• Kick-off meeting organized (Barcelona, 4-5 December 2013)
• GENIUS TWiki set-up for internal coordination in January 2014; report section opened
• Meeting at ESAC for the definition of the archive data model with the Science Archives Team (22nd January 2014)- Luri
• Teleconference for discussion of the Archive Data Model (28th January 2014) - Luri, Brown, Arenou, Hambly

200 - User community

Report for period October 2013 - Jan 2014

Brown participated in the GENIUS telecons and the kick-off meeting in December 2014 in Barcelona. So far no activities took place within WP200 as the recruitment process is still ongoing. This should be rounded off in the first weeks of February 2014.

300 - System design

Include summary here

400 - Data Exploitation

• Recruitment of personnel at UB: F. Julbe hired 1st January 2014. Software engineer dedicated full time to WP400

420-Visualization

430-Data Mining

440-VO tools and services

450-Community portal

500 - Validation

520-Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools

• S. Boudreault hired 1st December 2013 - Dedicated full time to WP520

• Example of catalogue validation use case, to be used as a template. (January - February 2014) - Arenou, Boudreault, Shih
• Writing validation test design in GAIA-C9-SP-OPM-FA-061. (December 2013 - February 2014) - Boudreault
• Writing first codes for validation test. (February 2014) - Boudreault

600 - Support

620-Simulated Catalogue

• First GOG catalogue generated (January 2014)
• Paper based on the catalogue statistics sent for publication in A&A (February 2014)

630-Science Alerts testbed

• Coordination meeting during the PESSTO workshop (Belfast, 5-7 February 2014) - Luri,Walton
• Videoconference for the definition of the Science Alerts Data Model (24th February 2014)