Progress update, 15 to 21 February 2014

Welcome to the progress update for the period 15 to 21 February, during which time superb progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. 14,133 words of Bentham text have been transcribed this week, along with a further 5,211 words of TEI XML.

We didn’t quite make it to 7,000 transcripts this week, but came mightily close! 6,991 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially transcribed, up 65 on last week. Of these transcripts, 6,659 are complete and have been locked, which is an increase of 51 on last week’s total.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 1: 57 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (7%)
• Box 2: 464 of 753 (61%)
• Box 5: 145 of 290 (50%)
• Box 15: 6 of 914 (1%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (COMPLETE)
• Box 34: 2 of 398 (1%)
• Box 35: 286 of 439 (65%)
• Box 36: 0 of 418 (0%)
• 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 (COMPLETE)
• Box 72: 612 of 664 (92%)
• Box 73: 151 of 151 (COMPLETE)
• Box 79: 199 of 199 (COMPLETE)
• 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: 456 of 538 (84%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 484 of 864 (55%)
• Box 117: 106 of 853 (10%)
• Box 118: 0 of 880 (0%)
• Box 119: 39 of 990 (1%)
• Box 121: 119 of 526 (21%)
• Box 122: 280 of 717 (38%)
• Box 139: 40 of 40 (COMPLETE)
• Box 150: 58 of 972 (4%)
• Box 169: 87 of 728 (11%)
• Overall: 37% of the 18,901 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

As you can see, five of the uploaded boxes have been completed, and boxes 70, 72, 95, 96, 107, and 115 are the others closes to completion. During the last week we have also uploaded a further 1,696 manuscript images: boxes 33 and 36 contain manuscripts pertaining to Bentham’s Constitutional Code, while Box 118 contains more panopticon material, including Bentham’s fruitless attempts to find a site for his penitentiary. We will write more about this new material next week, and more and more images to transcribe will be added in the forthcoming weeks.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has contributed to Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days, your efforts remain as greatly appreciated as ever.