MERIL

Hosting Legal Entity

The Cyprus Institute
Address:	Cyprus

Location

20 Constantinou Kavafi Street, CyI Athalassa Campus, Nicosia, PO: 2121 (Cyprus)

Type Of RI

Mobile

Coordinating Country

Cyprus

Status

Current Status:

Under construction since 2011

Timeline

Operational since 2014

Mission and objectives

The STAR-Lab project aims at creating a unique infrastructure consisting of a mobile Lab with facilities for digital data acquisition, geophysics, data processing and archaeometry, for research, documentation, conservation and preservation of cultural heritage. The facilities will be particularly useful for the archaeological field work, preventive archaeology and data collection and processing in remote areas, as well as work on immovable museum artefacts. The mobile Lab will consist of 4-wheel drive truck with a specially fitted cabin on the chassis, capable of hosting two researchers and their necessary equipment for performing the research and remotely communicate with the field units and the “home Laboratory”. It will be a self-sufficient unit and most of the analyses will be carried on directly on site, enabling a number of analyses presently not performed or performed only in special cases for logistic difficulties that it will completely solve. The Lab will be managed by a highly specialized research team with complementary skills, manned by two technicians for current operations and maintenance.

RI Keywords

Cultural heritage, Data processing, Digital data, Mobile laboratory, Archeometry, Cultural heritage preservation, Archaeology, Data acquisition, Geophysics

RI Category

Research Data Service Facilities

Scientific Domain

Humanities and Arts

Mobile Laboratory

The mobile Lab will consist of 4-wheel drive truck with a specially fitted cabin on the chassis, capable of hosting two researchers and their necessary equipment for performing the research and remotely communicate with the field units and the “home Laboratory”. It will be a self-sufficient unit and most of the analyses will be carried on directly on site, enabling a number of analyses presently not performed or performed only in special cases for logistic difficulties that it will completely solve.

Mobile Laboratory

The mobile Lab will consist of 4-wheel drive truck with a specially fitted cabin on the chassis, capable of hosting two researchers and their necessary equipment for performing the research and remotely communicate with the field units and the “home Laboratory”. It will be a self-sufficient unit and most of the analyses will be carried on directly on site, enabling a number of analyses presently not performed or performed only in special cases for logistic difficulties that it will completely solve.