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ACTA IMEKO 
July 2012, Volume 1, Number 1, 4 
www.imeko.org 

 

ACTA IMEKO | www.imeko.org  July 2012 | Volume 1 | Number 1 | 4 

Editorial: The Revival of ACTA IMEKO  

Paul P.L. Regtien
 

Measurement Science Consultancy, Julia Culpstraat 66, 7558JB Hengelo, The Netherlands 

 

Keywords: Journal; IMEKO  

Citation: Paul P.L. Regtien, Editorial, Acta IMEKO, vol. 1, no. 1, article 4, July 2012, identifier: IMEKO‐ACTA‐01(2012)‐01‐04 

Editor: Paul Regtien, Measurement Science Consultancy, The Netherlands 

Copyright: © 2012 IMEKO. This is an open‐access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License, which permits 
unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited 

Corresponding author: Paul P.L. Regtien, e‐mail: paul@regtien.net 

 

 
The first issue of the official publication of IMEKO was 

published in 1958, the year that IMEKO was founded. The title 
of this issue was simply “Acta Imeko 1958”, with subtitle 
“Proceedings of the International Measurements Conference” 
printed in 5 languages on the second page (Figure 1). The 
publication was issued by the Hungarian Sci. Soc. for 
Measurement & Automation. 

That issue contains the papers presented at the first IMEKO 
World Congress, and since then is organized every three years. 
During many years, the contributions to IMEKO World 
Congresses were published in Acta IMEKO. Later, the 
Proceedings of the World Congresses were issued by the 
organizers as Proceedings, and the name Acta IMEKO 
disappeared from these printed versions. 

In the last decades, the printed proceedings were gradually 
replaced by proceedings on CDROM’s, and more recently on 
memory sticks. The proceedings of the TC-events followed the 
same development. 

Selected papers from World Congresses and TC events were 
published in a newly established IMEKO journal 
“Measurement” which first issue came out in 1983. This journal 
evolved gradually into an international journal published by 
Elsevier, with scientific articles not only from IMEKO events 
but from scientists all over the world working in the realm of 
Measurement and Instrumentation. The restricted number of 
issues per year prevents publication of the many qualified 
contributions to IMEKO workshops, symposia and congresses. 
This was a major reason for the General Council of IMEKO to 
decide in 2009 to publish an e-Journal. Its main goal is the 
enhancement of academic activities of IMEKO and a wider 
dissemination of scientific output from TC events. 

Starting a new journal is not just a matter of pushing a 
button. I am much indebted to the persons who assisted with 
the preparatory work. Special thanks go to Dirk Röske who is 
supervising the electronic platform underpinning this journal, 
Pedro Ramos who acted as the first guest editor and in this 
capacity had to brake fresh ground, and Francisco Alegria who 
designed the journal’s template and act as the layout editor for 
all articles in this issue. Without their help it was not possible to 
create this first electronic version of Acta IMEKO as a modern 
successor of the original printed versions. 

 Hopefully this first special issue will soon be followed by 
many others presenting selected papers from future IMEKO 
events to the world-wide community of measurement scientists 
and engineers. 

 

Figure 1. Image of the second page of the first issue of Acta IMEKO, 1958.