e-Perimetron
e-Perimetron is a free-access, fees-free international web journal with principal aim to couple issues on history of cartography and maps with a variety of possibilities offered by the new digital analytical, information and communication technologies. It 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 in the large. The journal is enlisted by the National Library of Greece under the International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) 1790-3769
Origins
In 2001 the four founding editors of the journal Piero Falchetta (Marciana Library, Venice), Evangelos Livieratos (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki), Carlo Monti (Politecnico, Milan) and George Tolias (National Research Foundation, Athens), two coming from history of cartography and two from mapping sciences and technologies, met in mid-June in the island of Cephalonia, Ionian Sea, Greece on the occasion of the presentation of a book dedicated to the maps of Heptanese - Ionian Islands 'from Ptolemy to Satellites'. The book was the product of a Greek-Italian cooperation, from Thessaloniki, Athens, Argostoli, Venice, Milan. In 2004 was publishing in Italian by 'Il Poligrafo', under the title L'Eptaneso nelle carte. Da Tolomeo ai satelliti.
In the Island of Cephalonia, Falchetta, Livieratos, Monti and Tolias discussed on the possibility of establishing an international free-access web journal aiming at an innovation: to bring together historians of cartography and maps with cartography scholars and experts in new digital cartographic technologies in order to create a common space of research targeting at the broadening of cartographic and map heritage access and expertise
Five years passed from that meeting in Cephalonia and the idea was finalised in 2006, when the journal appeared on the web almost simultaneously with the creation of the ICA Working Group on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage at La Coruña. In fact e-Perimetron was coming to couple the work of this ICA initiative and vice-versa. The journal appears since then four times per year with increasing success fo far, academically referenced by international scholars and students.
Title
e- stands for the digital orientation of the journal and Perimetron recalls a Greek word for map (cf. the perimetre of land and sea), see O.A.W. Dilke 1985, Greek and Roman Maps, Ithaca NY: Cornell
Topics
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 modern geospatial engineering tools in all of its contexts, i.e. geoinformatics, geoinformation, geomatics and geoinfographics which are or could be applied to the historical domain of cartography and maps are welcome as potential topics of interest. This does not mean that cartographic issues as seen from a pure historical point of view are not accepted. On the contrary, are strongly invited since they could offer fertile grounds for discussion stimulating new ideas and opening new horizons and approaches towards the desired coupling of pure history with modern digital cartographic processes
Volumes
In the sixteen volumes, from 2006 to 2017, the journal counts 64 issues with 300 papers (ca 20 papers per volume, ca 5 papers per issue) for a total of 3,656 pages (ca 12 pages per paper)
*only 3 issues
Vol.16: 15 papers, 155* pages - 2021 Vol.15: 15 papers, 225 pages - 2020 Vol.14: 15 papers, 221 pages - 2019 Vol.13: 15 papers, 235 pages - 2018 Vol.12: 15 papers, 188 pages - 2017 Vol.11: 16 papers, 201 pages - 2016 Vol.10: 12 papers, 189 pages - 2015 Vol. 8: 17 papers, 208 pages - 2013 Vol. 7: 21 papers, 219 pages - 2012 Vol. 6: 24 papers, 249 pages - 2011 Vol. 5: 19 papers, 249 pages - 2010 Vol. 4: 28 papers, 266 pages - 2009 Vol. 3: 21 papers, 256 pages - 2008 Vol. 2: 22 papers, 277 pages - 2007 Vol. 1: 29 papers, 313 pages - 2006
Statistics
According to the statistics kept since December 2009, e-Perimetron was viewed in the period 2009-2021 (December), ca 5,506 times/year or ca 15 times/day; by ca 3,120 visitors/year or almost 9 visitors/day, from 149 countries. The top 10 in % (+/- variation December 2021-July 2017): Greece 20.7 (+0.4); USA 19.0 (+1.6); Italy 6.3 (-1.3); Germany 4.6 (+0.1); UK 4.2 (-0.3); China 4.1 (+1.3); France 3.3 (-0.4); Brazil 3.2 (0); Spain 2.8 (-0.5); Czechia 2.2 & Russia 2.2.
