de Appel is happy to invite you to a second series of Archive Hours: three archiving workshops facilitated by Mariana Lanari, Nell Donkers and invited guest speakers: Melisa Cenik, Janou Munnik, Ami Clarke and Lozana Rossenova. In these stand-alone workshops we share archiving methods with fellow artists, researchers and archivists working within cultural institutions, community spaces, social movements, artist archives and research archives. Archive Hours was initiated by Archival Consciousness (Mariana Lanari and Remco van Bladel) in and with de Appel.

Each Archive Hours session consists of an introduction by Mariana Lanari, followed by a presentation of a study case by an invited guest, and provides practical guidance for the participating archives. Each afternoon is structured around a different theme. Archive Hours take place from 14:00–17:30. Afterwards we slide into Archive Happy Hours with soup and drinks until 19:00, to share our love and predicaments in our archiving practices.

Melisa Cenik will present the making of De School's audio archive and the producing and sharing of a manual of this process. De School Archive 2016-2024 timecapsules eight years of club history into an expansive sound archive. Melisa has worked on this archive with care and joy – grass rooting and learning by doing how to build an audio archive from non-tangible electronic music events. She has published a manual for archiving sound and shared it for everybody's use. She will talk about the pitfalls and highlights, the politics and the technical of archiving and safekeeping a culture that is scarsely being represented. We will also have a look at the manual and talk about the importance of manual-making.

Janou Munnik travels across the Netherlands with a mobile digitisation station in a suitcase to digitize extra vulnerable books, medieval manuscripts and documents, bringing these fragile manuscripts into the digital age through high-quality photography. Together with manuscript expert Annelynn Koenders, Janou digitizes on-site at heritage institutions, using the Traveller's Conservation Copy Stand (TCCS), minimizing the risk to these precious objects. The TCCS is a fully equipped, mobile digitization setup packed into a single suitcase. This mobile project, initiated by Huygens Instituut and continued by KB National Library aims to make all Dutch medieval manuscripts digitally accessible. Janou will share her travels and practice with us, present the TCCS and showcase the digitised manuscripts.

DAAP is an interactive, user-driven, searchable database of artists' books and publications, that acts as a hub to engage with others, built by artists, publishers and a community of creative practitioners, developed via an ethically-driven design process and open-data methodology. Ami Clarke and Lozana Rossenova (Banner Repeater, London) will talk about key features of the DAAP, The Digital Archive of Artists' Publishing, as a tool for artists publishers and bookmakers, archivists, historians, curators, and lovers of artist books in general, showing how to get started right away with the Wiki database to add your own artist books or collection.

The workshop will be focussed on how the de Appel Archives artists book collection is shared on the DAAP. This will include a general introduction to using the DAAP and the importance of sharing your archive datasets publicly through platforms such as DAAP and NADD. DAAP draws upon the working knowledge of users and archivists alike, to develop a database with sufficient complexity, whilst remaining searchable. It affords multiple histories to develop, confronting issues of authorship and representation, whilst addressing the challenges of cataloguing often deliberately difficult to categorise materials. As such, DAAP is committed to challenging the politics of traditional archives from a de-colonial, critical gender and LGBTQI perspective.

This workshop series is made posible with the help of Network Archives Design and Digital Culture (NADD)