Progress update, 15 to 21 March 2014

Welcome to the progress update for the period 15 to 21 March 2014, which has seen transcribers make further excellent progress. 15,106 words of Bentham text have been transcribed this week, along with a further 6,046 words of TEI XML.

7,258 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially transcribed, up 48 on this time last week. Of these transcripts, 6,927 (95%) are complete and have been locked after being checked by TB project staff.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

Box	No. of manuscripts worked on	No. of manuscripts in box	Completion
Box 1	63	794	7%
Box 2	465	753	61%
Box 5	147	290	50%
Box 15	16	914	1%
Box 27	350	350	100%
Box 34	3	398	1%
Box 35	286	439	65%
Box 36	0	418	0%
Box 41	70	528	12%
Box 42	54	910	5%
Box 50	156	198	76%
Box 51	370	940	39%
Box 62	55	565	10%
Box 70	295	350	84%
Box 71	663	663	100%
Box 72	612	664	92%
Box 73	151	151	100%
Box 79	199	199	100%
Box 95	122	147	82%
Box 96	528	539	97%
Box 97	71	296	23%
Box 98	215	499	42%
Box 100	182	422	41%
Box 107	458	538	84%
Box 115	276	307	89%
Box 116	492	864	55%
Box 117	155	853	16%
Box 118	36	880	3%
Box 119	62	990	6%
Box 121	119	526	21%
Box 122	280	717	38%
Box 139	40	40	100%
Box 150	95	972	9%
Box 169	123	728	16%
Overall	7,258	18,842	38%

On Monday 24 March, we will be making a very exciting announcement about Transcribe Bentham, so please do watch this space! (and the project’s Twitter and Facebook feeds).

In further reading, the Director of the Bentham Project and General Editor of the Collected Works, Professor Philip Schofield, has written an entry for the Oxford University Press blog entitled ‘Gloomy terrors or the most intense pleasure?‘. This blog discusses the recently published Of Sexual Irregularities, and Other Writings on Sexual Morality, in which Bentham advances the first systematic defence of sexual liberty in modern European thought.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has given their time so generously to Transcribe Bentham during the last week, it is as appreciated by us as ever.