Progress update, 6-12 August 2011

Welcome to this week’s progress update, covering the period 6-12 August 2011.

1,681 manuscripts have now been transcribed, 1,413 (84%) of which are complete and locked.

The state of play for each box of material is as follows:

• Box 2: 177 manuscripts transcribed of 532 (33%)
• Box 27: 204 of 350 (58%)
• Box 35: 188 of 439 (43%)
• Box 50: 32 of 92 (35%)
• Box 51: 18 of 940 (2%)
• Box 70: 154 of 250 (44%)
• Box 71: 104 of 665 (16%)
• Box 72: 97 of 664 (15%)
• Box 73: 114 of 156 (73%)
• Box 79: 38 of 199 (19%)
• Box 95: 44 of 147 (30%)
• Box 96: 256 of 539 (48%)
• Box 115: 222 of 307 (72%)
• Box 139: 33 of 584 (6%)
• Overall: 1,681 of the 5,262 (32%) manuscripts uploaded to the website have been transcribed thus far.

A blog post is available at the Ars Electronica 2011 festival website, detailing the speakers and themes of the conference at which TB staff will be speaking. You will be able to stream the proceedings live over the internet, and ask questions via Twitter (please be gentle with us).

Thanks are due, as ever, to all those who gave their time and effort in transcribing material this week. It is greatly appreciated.