31 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget:: Elephant with Chicken

Drawing of elephants and chicken Above: Drawing by Jack, age 5. Submitted by Joy Palmer of the Archives Hub. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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23 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Elephantoodle

Drawing of an elephant Above: Drawing by Amanda Hill, formerly of the Archives Hub, and now relocated to Canada. Submitted by Amanda: "This elephant is a small part of the Archives Hub's own history. It was drawn on 19 January 2004, during a meeting to discuss the replacement of Irwell, the server upon which the service ran until 6 December of that year. I'm afraid I found those meetings rather dull...." THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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Elephants Never Forget: Ade and Jane

Ade and Jane - drawing by Mike Bryson Above: One of the drawings created by spot caricaturist Mike Bryson at a recent Mimas event. This shows Jane Stevenson of the Archives Hub and her husband Ade. Submitted by Lisa. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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22 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Lisa and Caroline

Lisa and Caroline - drawing by Mike Bryson Above: One of the drawings created by spot caricaturist Mike Bryson at a recent Mimas event. This shows Lisa Jeskins of the Archives Hub and Caroline Williams of Intute. Submitted by Lisa: "Caroline laughed a lot." THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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20 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Sally Ann

Illuminated letter 'S'' Above: One of the drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. This one is by Sally Ann Hughes, age 17, and was inspired by the Book of Kells. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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19 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Rosamond

Below: One of the drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. This one of a princess is by Rosamond Bailey, age 7, and was inspired by a portrait of Queen Elizabeth I. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. Princess - Rosie THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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18 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Laura

Illuminated letters spelling 'Laura' Above: One of the drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. This one is by Laura Bailey, age 10, and was inspired by the Book of Kells. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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17 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Felix

Illuminated letters spelling 'Felix' Above: One of the drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. This one is by Felix Dawson, and was inspired by the Book of Kells. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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16 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Alisha

Illuminated letter Illuminated letter Illuminated letter Above: A set of drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. These are by Alisha Hislop, aged 10, and were inspired by the Book of Kells. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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15 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Adam

Illuminated letter Above: The first of some colourful drawings created during a recent open day held at Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. This one is by Adam Gill, aged 17, and was inspired by the Book of Kells. Submitted by Claire Skinner of Wiltshire and Swindon Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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13 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: The Elephant of the Pagoda

Illustration of elephant Above: Illustration from the 1840s, showing an elephant in the Cirque National, Paris. Submitted by Jan Pimblett of London Metropolitan Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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10 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Grace

Elephant drawing Above: elephant drawing by Grace Wild, aged 9. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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09 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Elephant Boy

Elephant and Sabu Above: Submitted by Jenny Clark of Loughborough University: "This is a sketch based on a photograph from the Norman Swindin Collection in Loughborough University Archives. Swindin was a chemical engineer. The photograph the drawing is based on was taken during the making of the film Elephant Boy, (London Films, 1937), starring Sabu. At Swindin's suggestion the vulcanised rubber spray made by his company, Nordac, was used to produce suitable rubber 'elephant hide' for a life size model elephant to be used in the rampage scene. 400 miniature rubber elephants were also made to represent a distant herd. When Swindin went to the first showing of the film he couldn't spot a single fake! Nordac was later asked to make a rubber whale for Moby Dick but, sadly, had to decline." THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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05 October 2007

Elephants Never Forget: Here be elephants

Elephant drawing Elephant painting Above: Two elephants, by Brook Community School Hackney. Submitted by Jan Pimblett of London Metropolitan Archives. THE BIG DRAW. The Campaign for DrawingThis October the Archives Hub is taking part in The Big Draw. We want you to make drawings inspired by archives - or by elephants! - scan them or photograph them, and then email the digital versions to us. We'll give an Archives Hub notepad and propelling pencil to everyone who sends us a drawing, and the first name out of the pith helmet will receive some paper made from elephant pooh! If you send us your postal address, we won't use it for anything else.

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04 October 2007

Hub contributors are on the map!

Here at the Hub we have been working on creating a Google Maps mash-up for the past few weeks, and it is finally live on the Hub and accessible from our repositories page at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/inst/index.html It uses an XML document that lists each contributor with their latitude and longitude in order to create the markers - you can see the XML page at http://www.archiveshub.ac.uk/inst/locations.xml if you are interested in such things. The main HTML page simple links to the XML page and includes the script and information about the map itself. I tried doing this first of all just using the instructions and examples given on the Google Maps API but after a fairly lengthy process of creating the document (I didn't find the instructions that easy to get my head round) I ended up with the mystery of the disappearing markers...I found that when I displayed the map random markers would appear at different times. So, i would refresh the page and Exeter disappeared, refresh again and Aberdeen disappeared! After struggling with this problem and posting to the web-support jiscmail list to get some help, which was unfortunately not forthcoming, I abandoned that approach and found another site that offered a better Google Maps API tutorial. This showed me how to create a simple XML document with each element containing the label, link and co-ordinates for the contributor. I ended up with a lovely map, displaying all the information correctly...but I had been viewing it in Firefox browser, and when I tried in Internet Explorer I got half a map that was centered around the middle of France! So unless we quickly introduced some contributors from the continent, it was looking rather odd. I could only seem to solve this by abandoning part of the Hub navigation in order to lessen the number of tables that the map was contained within, and that did the trick for IE. We can add further information and images to the map if we want to, and if we find we have the time to do this, but we are quite pleased with our first attempt.

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