Progress update, 8 to 14 June 2013

Welcome to the progress update for the period 8 to 14 June, during which time further good progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. 7,100 words of Bentham text have been transcribed this week, along with 2,619 words of TEI XML. We are also delighted to say that the TB conversion rate has increased further, so that 95% of all transcripts submitted by volunteers have met the required standards, and have been locked. This is a fantastic achievement, particularly so given the difficulty of reading Bentham’s handwriting.

5,676 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially transcribed, which is an increase of 23 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 5,368 (95%) are of the required standard and have been locked, up 30 on this time last week.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 2: 425 manuscripts transcribed of 753 (56%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 282 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 16 of 528 (2%)
• Box 50: 136 of 198 (68%)
• Box 51: 359 of 940 (38%)
• Box 62: 53 of 565 (9%)
• Box 70: 281 of 350 (80%)
• Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
• Box 72: 608 of 664 (91%)
• Box 73: 151 of 151 (100%)
• Box 79: 198 of 199 (99%)
• Box 95: 120 of 147 (81%)
• Box 96: 527 of 539 (97%)
• Box 97: 56 of 296 (18%)
• Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
• Box 100: 150of 422 (33%)
• Box 107: 358 of 538 (66%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 414 of 864 (47%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Overall: 59% of the 9,497 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed thus far.

Perhaps the most interesting find this week was a manuscript transcribed by Jonathan Targett and Rob Magin, in which Bentham tells us how to bake bread.

Thank you again, as ever, to all those who have given their time and effort in transcribing manuscripts during the last seven days. It remains greatly appreciated by us all.