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  • 2011 Eleusis Field Programme and announcement for 2012

  • Following the success of our August 2010 digitization project and once again in collaboration with the University of Arkansas, we successfully completed the second season and further developed our innovative 3D laser scanning of the archaeological site of Eleusis. The programme ran during the months of May and June, before the summer heat wave, and was attended by Greek and US students representing a range of disciplines -  including Archaeological Conservation, Animation, Archaeology, Computer Engineering and Classics -  who actively participated and contributed to the continuing digitization of the site. This year and building on the feedback from last year's students, training was more focused on laser scanning and data processing. The students now have the skills and capacity to digitize archaeological sites independently as well as to improvise and troubleshoot as needed. The digitization of the archeological site of Eleusis will run for at least one more year and we intend to expand this innovative programme to other archaeological sites in the near future. This year too we were honoured to partner with the University of Arkansas, the Bodossakis Foundation, Mr. T. Papalexopoulos, the Municipality of Eleusis and the Kykeon Tales restaurant.

    We are delighted to announce that next year we will be collaborating with Leica, world corporate leaders in 3D laser scaning,Rapidform, the software giant in the field of point cloud processing, as well as rising software star Alice Labs. Next year's intensive summer school will take place from May 21st to June 16th with the partnership of a new but very promising organisation, the Institute for Field Research whilst continuing to work with the University of Arkansas.