Summary of activities October 2016 - December 2016

WP1 - Management

WP2 - User community

• 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.
• 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.

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

From October-December, Twitter got the following numbers:

• 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).

Regarding the Gaiaverse portal (http://gaiaverse.eu/home/), during the period that goes from October 2016 to December 2016, 1,025 users have initiated more than 1,600 sessions. In total, they have viewed 3,038 pages, which is an average of 1.89 page per session with an average duration of 00:01:27. Bounce rate has been of 61.94% (normally is between 60-65%).

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%

From the 123 sessions initiated on Gaiaverse through social networks (7.65% of the thraffic), 66.67% came from Twitter, followed by Reddit (26.83%), Stack Exchange (4.07%) and Facebook (2.44%).