Progress update, 9 to 15 November

Welcome along to the progress update for the period 9 to 15 November, during which time further steady progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. 4,987 words of Bentham text have been transcribed, along with a further 1,940 words of TEI XML.

6,454 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 21 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 6,168 (95%) have been approved and locked after passing the quality control process, which is up 15 on this time last week.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 1: 12 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (1%)
• Box 2: 463 of 753 (61%)
• Box 5: 28 of 290 (10%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 285 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 69 of 528 (12%)
• Box 42: 49 of 910 (5%)
• Box 50: 148 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: 439 of 538 (81%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 481 of 864 (55%)
• Box 121: 111 of 526 (20%)
• Box 122: 245 of 717 (33%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Box 150: 24 of 972 (2%)
• Overall: 46% of the 13,820 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

Readers might be interested in the recently-released UCL Audio tour, which features a piece by Professor Philip Schofield (Bentham Project) and Nick Booth (UCL Museums) on Bentham, UCL, and his auto-icon.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has generously given their time and effort to the project during the last week. It is greatly appreciated by all of us at Transcribe Bentham.