Progress update, 1 to 7 March 2014

Welcome along to the progress update for the period 1 to 7 March 2014, during which time transcribers have been enormously productive. 19,628 words were transcribed this week, along with a further 6,452 words of TEI XML.

7,138 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, up 78 on last week’s total. This is particularly impressive, given that it was barely ten days ago when the 7,000th transcript was begun. Of these transcripts, 6,815 (95%) are now complete after having been checked, which is an increase of 81 since the last progress update.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 1: 59 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (7%)
• Box 2: 464 of 753 (61%)
• Box 5: 147 of 290 (50%)
• Box 15: 13 of 914 (1%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (COMPLETE)
• Box 34: 3 of 398 (1%)
• Box 35: 286 of 439 (65%)
• Box 36: 0 of 418 (0%)
• Box 41: 69 of 528 (12%)
• Box 42: 54 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: 457 of 538 (84%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 484 of 864 (55%)
• Box 117: 142 of 853 (16%)
• Box 118: 28 of 880 (3%)
• Box 119: 40 of 990 (1%)
• Box 121: 119 of 526 (21%)
• Box 122: 280 of 717 (38%)
• Box 139: 40 of 40 (COMPLETE)
• Box 150: 93 of 972 (9%)
• Box 169: 93 of 728 (13%)
• Overall: 37% of the 18,901 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

This week, we took delivery of a further batch of the British Library’s Bentham manuscripts, containing more correspondence from Jeremy and Samuel Bentham, and their father Jeremiah. We will tell you more about this in the coming weeks, and it will – fairly soon – be available to explore and transcribe.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has taken part in Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days. Your efforts continue to widen access to Bentham’s manuscripts, and we remain extremely grateful.