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

eGY Has Ended

• eGY-Africa
• CODATA Task Group: International Polar Year Data Policy and Management Subcommittee
• IPYDIS
• AGU - Earth and Space Science Informatics
• GSA - Division of Geoinformatics
• EGU - Earth and Space Science Informatics
• IUGG - Union Commission for Data and Information
• IUGS - Commission for the Management and Application of Geoscience Information
• eGY representation on ICSU's Strategic Coordinating Committee for Information and Data
• ICSU World data center working group
• CODATA Task Group: “eGY Earth & Space Science Data Interoperability”
• COSPAR's Panel for Informatics
• Two new ICSU committees will formed as a result of the report of the ICSU Strategic Committee on Information and Data. As outlined in the committee report, the committees are “A scientific committee for the World Data System” (WDS-SC) and “A Strategic Coordinating Committee on Data and Information” (SCCID)

News and Announcements

• eGY News November 2008
• eGY News August 2008
• eGY News June 2008
• Newsroom
• eGY Spotlight Articles for Eos

Important Items

• The Tsukuba Declaration - the visionary statement by eGY, IPY, IHY, and IYPE marking the 50-year anniversary of IGY.
• Proceedings of the eGY conference in Pereslavl, Russia
• eGY Demonstration Projects
• eGY launch videos
• Films of the IGY
• eGY Declaration
• Celimontana Declaration
• Tsukuba Declaration