Progress update, 12 to 18 October 2013

Welcome along to the Transcribe Bentham progress update for the period 12 to 18 October 2013, during which time further steady progress has been made by volunteer transcribers. Over the last week, 12,365 words of Bentham text have been transcribed, along with a further 6,705 words of TEI XML.

6,377 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 33 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 6,079 (95%) are now complete and have been locked, which is up 38 on this time last week.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 2: 463 manuscripts transcribed of 753 (61%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 284 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 65 of 528 (11%)
• Box 42: 48 of 910 (5%)
• Box 50: 147 of 198 (74%)
• Box 51: 368 of 940 (39%)
• Box 62: 55 of 565 (10%)
• Box 70: 295 of 350 (84%)
• Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
• Box 72: 612 of 664 (92%)
• Box 73: 151 of 151 (100%)
• Box 79: 199 of 199 (100%)
• Box 95: 121 of 147 (82%)
• Box 96: 528 of 539 (97%)
• Box 97: 71 of 296 (23%)
• Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
• Box 100: 180 of 422 (40%)
• Box 107: 433 of 538 (80%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 477 of 864 (55%)
• Box 121: 109 of 526 (19%)
• Box 122: 215 of 717 (29%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Box 150: 15 of 972 (1%)
• Overall: 49% of the 12,736 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

We were thrilled to learn this week that Trinity College Dublin’s terrific Letters of 1916 project, which digitises and crowdsources letters written around the time of the Easter Rising, has incorporated Transcribe Bentham‘s transcription toolbar into its interface to allow volunteers to add mark-up to their transcripts. The project also uses the Omeka platform produced by the Roy Rosenzwig Center for History and New Media, and the customisation of this platform developed for DIY History by the University of Iowa Libraries. Code reuse is a win all-round, we think!

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has contributed their time and effort to Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days. It remains as greatly appreciated as ever.