Summary of activities June 2014 - August 2014

100 - Management

• Organization of monthly telecons: 4-July 2014

200 - User community

• Grainne Costigan did a comparison of the use cases in AB-026 to the current requirements specification for the archive.
• Conclusions were presented and discussed during the CU9 plenary meeting on July 7.
• The results will be written up as a technical note

300 - System design

400 - Data Exploitation

500 - Scientific Validation

510-Technical coordination

• Simplification of software template (June) - Arenou

520-Definition of problem cases, validation scenarios and tools

• In VTS document GAIA-C9-SP-OPM-FA-061 ; fields checked for each VTS, some TBDs and question marks removed, VTS WP942-430-040 changed to WP942-430-050, VTS WP942-430-030 divided in VTS WP942-430-030 and VTS WP942-430-040, new VTS WP942-230-010 about binaries (June 2014) - Boudreault
• Developing codes for VTS ; JUnits using DBTestTable (June 2014) - Boudreault
• New summer student (Clément Viard) working on the bright stars issue, under the supervision of SB and FA (May 2014) - Arenou, Boudreault, Viard
• Writing Mantis issues 0027618 (June 2014) - Boudreault
• Teleconferences on VTS (June 2014) - Antiche, Arenou, Boudreault, Fabricius, Romero-Gomez

530-Simulation versus reality: from models to observables

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540-Confronting Gaia to external archives

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560-Transversal tools for special objects

• Maria Kudryashova (mkudryashova@imcce.fr) will be recruited at IMCCE (Paris Observatory) to work on the Solar System Objects validation

600 - Support

700 - Dissemination

T7.2 - Community portal infrastructure

• Several improvements based on Grainne Costigan (Leiden University) comments have been introduced in the portal design, as well as additional content and sections.
• Website header desing has been also changed to highlight the project's name.

T7.3 - Community portal, outreach and academic activities

• Community portal was presented during the CU9 plenary meeting on July 7.
• The Executive Board has created an Editorial Board to carry out a high-level supervision of the portal contents. Current list of members is:
  - Gráinne Costigane (Leiden)
  - Frederic Arenou (Meudon)
  - Mariateresa Crosta (INAF)
  - Heather Campbell (University of Cambridge)
  - Eduard Masana (UB)
  A second level of collaborators might be defined in September for the content provision, translation into several languages...