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
Staff involved and effort expended (Full-Time Equivalent):
- UEDIN: Hambly (0.15) Morris (0.2) Voutsinas (0.2)
- INAF-OATs: Molinaro (0.5) Smareglia (0.5)
Work done:
- Organised System Architecture bi-monthly telecon (10th October 2013) which included GENIUS developers
- Represented GENIUS system design team at CU9 Data Model and Validation teleconferences
- INAF-OATs team continuing development of VO-Dance for generic TAP functionality
- UEDIN team continuing development of
- Distributed Query Processing generic design
- Working on enhancements to Gaia CU9 Data Modelling UI application to aid in CU9 interface control
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
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)