An Earth and Space Science Information Commons Initiative:
International Co-operation for Open Access to Data

News and Announcements

• eGY News: June 2008
• eGY News: March 2008
• eGY News: January 2008
• Nature Article
• eGY Spotlight Articles for Eos

Upcoming Events

• Sept 8-13: Informatik 2008 in Munich Germany. (Website)
• Sept 29-30: Fifth International Conference on the Preservation of Digital Objects - iPres 2008 - British Library Conference Centre, London (Register now!) (View the preliminary programme)
• Oct 5-9: GSA/GCAGS Joint meeting, Houston Texas: Celebrating the International Year of Planet Earth. Abstracts are now open. (Website)
• Oct 20-24: ICSU General Assembly, Maputo, Africa (Website)
• Nov 10-13: Fifty years after IGY = Modern Information Technologies and Earth and Solar Sciences, Tsukaba, Japan (Website) Abstracs submission open in mid May.
• Events calendar

Important Items

• eGY-Africa
• eGY Demonstration Projects
• eGY launch videos
• Films of the IGY
• eGY Declaration
• Celimontana Declaration