Clepsydra Digitisation Lab

Clepsydra was founded in 2006 as a result of a homonym national funded research and development project. The laboratory is accommodated in the premises of the Athena Research and Innovation Centre in Xanthi, Greece and it is focused on the digitisation, archiving, visualisation, management, promotion and dissemination of digital replicas derived mainly from the cultural heritage domain. Its personnel is composed of active researchers and specialised scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. For over a decade Clepsydra has worked in close collaboration with the Cultural Heritage Department and the Archaeometry and Physicochemical Measurements Laboratory of the Athena Research Centre composing an integrated interdisciplinary environment capable of handling a vast range of R&D challenges that have strong impact in the cultural heritage domain. It holds an EN ISO 9001:2000 quality management system for 3D digitisation services. Its current infrastructures consist of commercial and in-house developed experimental and hybrid digitisation systems.