Progress update, 3 to 9 August 2013

Welcome to the Transcribe Bentham progress update for the period 3 to 9 August 2013, during which time further excellent progress has been made. 11,386 words of Bentham text were transcribed during the last seven days, along with a further 4,469 words of TEI XML.

5,816 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, up 30 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 5,616 (95%) are now complete and locked after passing the quality control process. In a few weeks’ time, our 6,000th manuscript will have been a worked on, which will be a quite incredible achievement on the part of volunteer transcribers.

• Box 2: 456 manuscripts transcribed of 753 (60%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 283 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 43 of 528 (7%)
• Box 42: 24 of 910 (2%)
• Box 50: 141 of 198 (70%)
• Box 51: 361 of 940 (38%)
• Box 62: 53 of 565 (9%)
• Box 70: 293 of 350 (83%)
• Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
• Box 72: 610 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: 62 of 296 (20%)
• Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
• Box 100: 173 of 422 (39%)
• Box 107: 404 of 538 (75%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 451 of 864 (52%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Overall: 56% of the 10,488 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

We are delighted to say that some new material to transcribe has been uploaded to the Transcription Desk: Box 42 contains further material relating to Bentham’s massive, unfinished Constitutional Code, which comprises the most important statement of Bentham’s theory of representative democracy. This tranche of manuscripts deals mostly with the judiciary and ministries.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has given their time and effort so generously to Transcribe Bentham over the last seven days. It remains greatly appreciated by us all.