**5.1 Digital curation of the Teriade museum exhibits using the AFIGISSI platform**

The **AFIGISSI** (NARRATION) platform is developed to support, manage and promote digital content of cultural and tourist infrastructures (tourist sites, museums, archeological sites, exhibition spaces, etc.) through the creation of personalized individual and collaborative narratives. Access to narratives is possible either during a physical visit of an infrastructure during its regular operation (such as permanent exhibitions) and/or its temporary events (such as periodic exhibitions)

#### **Figure 12.**

*Floor plans and drawings: Levi, D., 1976. Festos e la Civilta Minoica I, Rome: Ediz.dell'Ateneo. 3D modeling and application of materials [23].*

<sup>2</sup> PoI: Point of Interest

*SYNTHESIS: A Platform of Platforms for Integrated Management, Curation, and Visualization… DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.98213*

#### **Figure 13.**

*a. Digital curation example using the AFIGISSI platform: Conceptual depiction of the transitioning: (a) from museum exhibits to digital assets, (b) from digital assets to digital exhibits, (c) from digital exhibits to digital narratives; and (d) from digital narratives to exhibits and their visualization with smartphones and VR/AR as in Figure 3a and Figure 3b, respectively.*

or remotely. The project reveals cultural content by implementing new narrative structures, less strictly defined scenarios, automated and semi-automated modes, by overturning time sequences and by offering a variety of filtering and grouping options to respond to modern perceptions of versatile objects and their multiple interpretations. The platform allows specialized and non- specialized users to produce narratives based on the available content and to share them with targeted audiences. The curation of the (digitized) exhibits of the Teriade museum has been used as a pilot use case for demonstrating the ability of the AFIGISSI platform to store, manage, curate digital content in accordance to a narrative, and transform the curated outcome into an experience that can be visualized with smartphones and VR/AR technologies, **Figure 13a**.

#### **5.2 From i-guide Knossos to the journey of Ariadne**

An audiovisual projection mapping installation inspired by the world of Knossos and its digital interpretation and constitutes a blueprint for the creation of an immersive digital experience (Ariadne's Journey) from 3D digital assets and animations created within iGuide Knossos for the reconstruction of the ancient Minoan Palace of Knossos in Crete, Greece, an original narrative that addresses the process of knowledge discovery through excavations of historic monuments, and history itself, by a young contemporary girl, and the visualization of the outcome of this curatorial effort with VR technology and projection mapping [5, 25]. The narrative, artistic and spiritual field of Ariadne's journey explores the construction of memory and the meeting points of the historical

#### **Figure 14.**

*Ariadne's Journey concerns an audiovisual projection mapping installation, inspired by the people of Knossos. Ariadne leaves the city behind to discover a fantasy world, created from familiar and strange images, where the myth, the archaeological hoe and the dreamy mood are intertwined in a colorful fantasy puzzle. Ancient ruins are transformed, frescoes come to life [23].*

and mythological constructions that experience the unexpected journey of a young modern heroine. Through esthetic narrative, the work aims to create an experience for listeners of all ages, translating, or perhaps more accurately, the interpretation of CH images and historical documentation into a living esthetic vocabulary, **Figure 14** [23].
