Progress update, 19 to 25 October 2013

Welcome along to the progress update for the period 19 to 25 October 2013, during which time further steady progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. During the last week, 7,189 words of Bentham text have been transcribed, along with a further 3,035 words of TEI XML.

6,400 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 23 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 6,100 (95%) are now complete and been locked, 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: 68 of 528 (11%)
• Box 42: 49 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: 435 of 538 (80%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 480 of 864 (55%)
• Box 121: 109 of 526 (19%)
• Box 122: 224 of 717 (29%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Box 150: 20 of 972 (2%)
• Overall: 50% of the 12,736 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

We had an excellent meeting with students on UCL’s Centre for Publishing MA course this week, who will be producing a Bentham cookbook based on the panopticon recipes uncovered by TB transcribers. We’re looking forward to this, and are sure that the results will look much better than our attempts at Bentham’s baked apple pudding.