Progress update, 25 January to 7 February 2014
By Tim Causer, on 7 February 2014
Welcome along to the progress update for the period 25 January to 7 February 2014, which has proven quite a busy period. Firstly, many apologies for the delay in checking transcripts last week, and the non-appearance of the progress update last Friday. This was owing to our attendance at a tranScriptorium project meeting in Innsbruck; we look forward to telling you more about this project in the next few months as work progresses. Normal service has now been resumed, and we apologise for any inconvenience which this delay may have caused.
During this two-week period, 16,489 words of Bentham text were transcribed by volunteers, along with an additional 6,690 words of TEI XML. 6,890 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 66 since the last progress update. Of these transcripts, 6,577 (95%) are complete and locked after having undergone our quality-control process.
The more detailed state of progress is as follows:
- Box 1: 53 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (6%)
- Box 2: 464 of 753 (61%)
- Box 5: 143 of 290 (49%)
- Box 15: 4 of 914 (1%)
- Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
- Box 35: 286 of 439 (65%)
- Box 41: 69 of 528 (12%)
- Box 42: 53 of 910 (5%)
- Box 50: 152 of 198 (76%)
- Box 51: 370 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: 122 of 147 (82%)
- Box 96: 528 of 539 (97%)
- Box 97: 71 of 296 (23%)
- Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
- Box 100: 182 of 422 (41%)
- Box 107: 454 of 538 (84%)
- Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
- Box 116: 484 of 864 (55%)
- Box 117: 75 of 853 (8%)
- Box 119: 1 of 990 (0%)
- Box 121: 118 of 526 (21%)
- Box 122: 279 of 717 (38%)
- Box 139: 40 of 40 (100%)
- Box 150: 38 of 972 (3%)
- Box 169: 80 of 728 (10%)
- Overall: 39% of the 17,205 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.
This week we also took receipt of the first batch of digital images from the British Library’s Bentham manuscripts. The BL are digitising the volumes of correspondence first, and this set contains letters to and from Jeremy himself, his father Jeremiah and Mother Alicia, his brother Samuel, step-brother Charles Abbot, and many others besides. They feature a letter from Jeremiah Bentham to the headmaster of Westminster School, complaining that some of the older boys had divested young Jeremy of his books, and Jeremy’s translation into English from the Latin Cicero’s Tusculan Disputations. This material will be uploaded to the website in due course, and we look forward to exploring it further with you.
Thank you, as always, to everyone who has given their time and effort to Transcribe Bentham during the last two weeks. It remains as greatly appreciated by us as ever.