Summary of activities April 2016 - June 2016
WP1 - Management
WP2 - User community
- 31th May - 4th Jun, YY visited to AGIS meeting in Lund. YY and AGIS memeres share Nano-JASMINE situation, and discuss future collaboration of Gaia / JASMINE. YY and M. Biermann discuss on collaboration of small-JASMINE calibration (meeting will be held in Tokyo in Aug.)
- YY starts organizing of Gaia-JASMINE joint meeting which will be held in Dec 2016 in Tokyo.
WP3 - System design
T3.1 Technical Coordination
- Coordinated review of end-user Data Model documentation, including VO UCD1+ content, between DPAC CU9, ESAC and ESAC-SDC
- Represented WP3 interests at weekly teleconferences between DPAC CU9 and ESAC / E-SDC
SW contributions available via GitHub (note acknowledgement of EC FP7 funding at the bottom of these pages!):
Pyrothorn - Testing suite for Firethorn, TAP, SQLServer, DQP & Deployment Scripts https://github.com/stvoutsin/pyrothorn TAP Autocomplete - Javascript Autocomplete library for TAP, to be used by GACS https://github.com/stvoutsin/pyrothorn Taplib (Fork of Gregory's code) - Enhancements, Bug Fixes and Modifications to ADQL Parser needed for Firethorn & the Genius demonstrator https://github.com/stvoutsin/taplib
T3.2 Aspects of archive interface design
T3.3 VO infrastructure
- Reviewed Gaia DR1 Archive Core Systems for VO compatibility via
- Comprehensive review of UCD1+ content specifiers
- Testing of ADQL interface
- Provision of example queries
T3.4 Data Centre collaboration
- (with S. Voutsinas) arranged visit to E-SDC in June to integrate the ADQL autocomplete facility into GACS
- GWT library further enhance for functions requested by E-SDC
T3.5 Data mining environments
- Contributed example use case to WP4
- Attended WP4 telecons to represent WP3 interests
- Further development of containerised components for DQP
- Write-up of Docker experiences for A&C continues
WP4 - Data Exploitation
T4.2 - Visualization
T4.3 - Data Mining
T4.4 - VO tools and services
WP5 - Validation
T5.1 - Technical coordination
- Validation meeting in Paris
T5.2 - Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools
- Updated all validation tests to conform to and verify final Gaia-DR1 requirements.
- Created validation database for recording and managing validation test results and added full support to all test cases.
- Implemented 5 new validation tests.
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
Although the Gaiaverse Twitter account arrived more than 300 followers during this period, its activity declined in comparison to the period between Dec. 2015 - March 2016. See the evolution below:
- April 16: tweets (10), tweet impressions (15,300), profile visits (5333), mentions (3), new followers (15), total number of followers in April 2016 (327).
- May 16: tweets (4), tweet impressions (13,700), profile visits (493), mentions (3), new followers (14), total number of followers in May 2016 (341).
- June 16: tweets (8), tweet impressions (4,741), profile visits (350), mentions (2), new followers (7), total number of followers in March 2016 (348).
This is, in part, due to de decrease in pupblishing news and blog entries.