Athens 09 March, 2015 Prof. László Zentai Secretary

XΑΡΤΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΗ ΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΟΝΙΚΗ ΕΤΑΙΡEΙΑ ΕΛΛΑΔΑΣ
ΜΕΛΟΣ ΤΗΣ INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
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HELLENIC CARTOGRAPHIC SOCIETY
MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL CARTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION
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Athens 09 March, 2015
Prof. László Zentai
Secretary-General and Treasurer
Department of Cartography and Geoinformatics
Eötvös University
H-1117 Budapest, Pázmány Péter sétány 1/A
Hungary
Dear Professor Zentai,
In response to your letter of 3 September 2014 and with reference to the proposals that can be made to the
16th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association, the Hellenic Cartographic Society
would like to make a proposal concerning the continuation of the Commission on Digital Technologies in
Cartographic Heritage and a nomination for its Chair and Vice-Chair.
This Commission was established – initially as a working group - in 2005 during the 22th International
Cartographic Conference held in La Coruña, Spain. The 14th ICA General Assembly, during the 23rd
International Cartographic Conference held in Moscow, decided the establishment of the Commission on
Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage for the period 2007-2011. Subsequently the 15th ICA General
Assembly, held in Paris in 2011, decided the continuation of the Commission on Digital Technologies in
Cartographic Heritage for a second period, 2011-2015.
During this decade the Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage under the
chairmanship of Prof. Evangelos Livieratos showed an outstanding activity through the organization of
workshops and tutorials covering a number of topics on Cartographic Heritage. It must be pointed out that
the participation in the Commission’s activities has been particularly high and this is a result of efficient
organization and identification of attractive themes.
The Commission except the annual reports on its activities to the ICA, publishes a scientific journal entitled
e-Perimetron. It is an international peer reviewed quarterly e-journal on sciences and technologies affined to
history of cartography and maps. Up to now nine volumes have been published covering a wide range of
research subjects dealing with humanistic, artistic, scientific and technological issues related to map history
and cartographic heritage at large.
The 10th Jubilee Conference+Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage will be held in
Corfu, Greece, 27-29 May 2015 co-organised and hosted by the History Department of the Ionian Univesrity
in cooperation with the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Cartoheritage Group in association with the
Commission Supporting Institutions and the partnership of the Maps & Geoinformation Curators Group-
MAGIC Group. In the framework of this Conference, the meeting of the ICA Commission on Map Projections
will also take place on 29 May 2015.
Based on the above, the council of the Hellenic Cartographic Society decided unanimously to make the
following proposals to the 16th General Assembly of the International Cartographic Association:
a. The continuation of the Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage for the period
2015 – 2019.
b. The change of the present name of the Commission to read: “Cartographic Heritage into Digital”.
This has been proposed by the Chairman of the Commission and reflects the current trends in the
respective scientific field.
c. The nomination of Prof. Evangelos Livieratos as Chairman of the Commission for 2015-2019 and
the nomination of Dr. Carme Montaner as Vice-Chair.
Attached to this letter you may find a copy of Prof. Livieratos’ statement of acceptance along with his short
Curriculum Vitae.
Sincerely yours,
Prof. Lysandros Tsoulos
President Hellenic Cartographic Society
From: [email protected]
Sent: ÐÝìðôç, 5 Ìáñôßïõ 2015 7:51 ìì
To: Lysandros Tsoulos
Subject: Proposal for ICA Commission and nomination of chairperson
Importance: High
To the President of the Hellenic Cartographic Society Prof. Lysandros
TSOULOS
Dear President, Dear Lysandros,
As you know and have personal idea on the issue, I am chairing for ten
years now the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic
Heritage with a certain, I suppose, success, thanks to the proposals and
support constantly received from the Hellenic Cartographic Society. The
outcome of the ten annual Commission's international Conferences
organised since 2006 (Thessaloniki, Athens, Barcelona, Venice, Vienna,
The Hague, Barcelona, Rome, Budapest, Corfu) and the synergies developed
with other institutions are good examples of the Commission's work,
which offered also support to the Hellenic Cartographic Society's
National Conferences.
A representative illustration of the Commission work and its impact is
clearly shown in the relevant website xeee.web.auth.gr/ICA-Heritage as
well as in the papers published in the Commission associated web journal
"e-Perimetron" on sciences and technologies affined to history of
cartography and maps (www.e-perimetron.org).
In order to finalize the work in the domain of Cartographic Heritage on
international level, I feel that I could offer my services in chairing
for the period 2015-2019 of the Commission proposing a slightly
different name, i.e.:
ICA COMMISSION ON CARTOGRAPHIC HERITAGE INTO THE DIGITAL
In this context, I would be glad if the Hellenic Cartographic Society
agrees to propose this Commission under my guidance to the ICA for
consideration and decision in the coming General Assembly to be held in
Rio de Janeiro.
Here it is a short CV and my personal website with more information of
my work and activities:
<< Prof. Evangelos Livieratos graduated in Rural & Surveying Engineering
(1970) from the National Technical University of Athens (Greece). He
received his Doctoral degrees in 1974 from NTUA and in
1976 from the University of Uppsala (Sweden). Docent of NTUA in 1978.
In 1979 we was elected full professor of the Chair of Higher Geodesy and
Cartography at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He worked in
research and teaching at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
(USA), the University of Uppsala (Sweden), University of Trieste
(Italy), University of Stuttgart (Germany), and as Visiting Prof. at the
Technical University of Delft (Netherlands), University of Bologna and
University IUAV of Venice (Italy). He was twice an Alexander von
Humboldt Fellow (Germany) and served as WG Head in the International
Association of Geodesy (IAG) and the International Cartographic
Association (ICA). IAG Fellow in 1991 and since 2007 elected Chair of
the ICA Commission on Digital Technologies in Cartographic Heritage with
two mandates (Moscow 2007, Paris 2011). Founder of the Greek
Cartographic Society (1993) and the National Centre for Maps and
Cartographic Heritage (1997), now Archive of Cartographic Heritage by
the State General Archives of Greece (2013). Bureau Member of the Higher
Education and Research Committee of the Council of Europe (1998-2002).
Since 2006 he is the founder and the coordinating editor of the
international web journal “e-Perimetron” for sciences and technologies
affined to history of cartography and maps. Minister of Environment,
Energy and Climatic Change in the Government of Greece (2012-2013).
Website: cartography.web.auth.gr/Livieratos >>
Thanking you for your concern and for HCS's support,
Evangelos Livieratos
Professor of Higher Geodesy & Cartography School of Rural & Surveying
Engineering Faculty of Engineering Aristotle University of Thessaloniki