Progress update, 16 to 22 November 2013 – 6,500 transcripts up!

Welcome to the progress update for the period 16 to 22 November 2013, during which time further excellent progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. As the headline suggests, volunteers have just worked on their 6,500th transcript, a milestone which has been reached in little over three years. This is a wonderful achievement, of which everyone who has contributed to Transcribe Bentham should be proud.

This week, 8,727 words of Bentham text have been transcribed, along with a further 3,383 words of TEI mark-up. 6,500 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 25 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 6,197 (95%) have been approved and locked after passing the quality-control process, 29 up on this time last week.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 1: 14 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (1%)
• Box 2: 463 of 753 (61%)
• Box 5: 35 of 290 (12%)
• 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: 440 of 538 (81%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 481 of 864 (55%)
• Box 121: 111 of 526 (20%)
• Box 122: 252 of 717 (34%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Box 150: 32 of 972 (3%)
• Overall: 47% of the 13,820 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

Eagle-eyed readers may have seen a Transcribe Bentham advert in the December issue of History Today magazine, which hit newsagents across the country yesterday.

Thank you, as always to everyone who has contributed to Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days, and, indeed, since the project began back in September 2010. Your work has helped the project to reach another landmark, and we remain hugely grateful for your efforts.