e_Perimetron

e_Perimetron

http://www.maplibrary.gr/e_perimetron.htm

Publisher: Hellenic National Centre for Maps and Cartographic Heritage

e_Perimetron is a pluralist peer reviewed international journal which does
not obey any particular ideological, theoretical or methodological approach
in dealing with humanistic, artistic, scientific and technological issues
related to map history and cartographic heritage. The journal is published
quarterly during the four seasons of the year.

Perimetron recalls a Greek word for "map" as referenced  in Ges kai thalassis 
perimetron / The perimetre of land and sea" [see Dilke O.A.W. (1985), Greek 
and Roman Maps, Ithaca N.Y.: Cornell] 

e_Perimetron is intended to function as a modern medium for the advancement
and dissemination of knowledge and research related to the involvement of
new analytical methods and digital information and communication
technologies as applied to a manifold of approaches affine to history of
maps and cartography in the large.

All geoinformatics, geomatics and infographics tools which are or could
applied to the historical domain of cartography and maps are welcome as
potential topics of interest. This does not mean at all that cartographic
issues as seen from a pure historical point of view are not accepted. On the
contrary are heartly invited since they could offer fertile grounds for
discussion stimulating new ideas and opening new approaches towards the
eventual coupling of pure history with modern cartographic processes.

Aim of the venture is to bring together, in harmonic convergence, historians
of cartography and maps, cartography scholars and  experts in new digital
technologies dealing with cartography and maps in order to create a common
space of research targeting at the broadening of cartographic and map
history expertise.

The web option for such a journal is based on the intrinsic nature of the
topic requiring an easy and fast vehicle for exposing new ideas, paradigms,
examples of good practice and any other mean serving the basic aim of the
initiative, which is in a state of fast evolution due to the advances of the
new computational and graphic digital technologies. The web carrier offers
considerable flexibility allowing e.g. the use of meta-illustrations, i.e.
animations, which are impossible to use in the traditional paper
publications.

Contributions are submitted in English or French, the official languages of
the International Cartographic Association.

Editors:

P. Falchetta
Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
Venice, Italy
Email: falchetta@marciana.venezia.sbn.it

E. Livieratos
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Greece
Email: livier@auth.gr

C. Monti
Technical University of Milan
Italy
Email: carlo.monti@polimi.it

G. Tolias
National Research Foundation
Athens, Greece
Email: gtolias@eie.gr

e_Perimetron is available free of charge as an Open Access journal on the
Internet.

Current Issue: Volume 1 Number 1 Autumn 2005 (Forthcoming)

Date: 4 August 2005