Progress update, 21 to 27 June 2014

Welcome along to the progress update for the period 21 to 27 June 2014, which has been another mammoth week of transcription – the second busiest week, in fact, in TB history! Thank you to all who’ve contributed this week, and for continuing to bear with us while we work through our backlog of transcripts – we’re getting there.

9,555 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 227 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 8,639 (90%) are now locked after being checked by TB editors. The completion percentage should increase in the next couple of weeks when we catch up with transcripts which need to be checked.
The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

Box	No. of manuscripts worked on	No. of manuscripts in box	Completion
Box 1	114	794	14%
Box 2	465	753	61%
Box 5	166	290	57%
Box 15	51	914	6%
Box 18	2	192	1%
Box 27	350	350	100%
Box 29	12	122	9%
Box 31	11	302	3%
Box 34	29	398	7%
Box 35	286	439	65%
Box 36	21	418	5%
Box 37	15	487	3%
Box 38	47	424	11%
Box 39	6	282	2%
Box 41	77	528	13%
Box 42	69	910	7%
Box 44	51	201	25%
Box 50	159	198	79%
Box 51	372	940	39%
Box 57	12	420	2%
Box 62	55	565	10%
Box 70	298	350	85%
Box 71	663	663	100%
Box 72	613	664	92%
Box 73	151	151	100%
Box 79	199	199	100%
Box 95	123	147	83%
Box 96	534	539	99%
Box 97	111	296	37%
Box 98	218	499	43%
Box 100	188	422	42%
Box 107	481	538	89%
Box 115	276	307	89%
Box 116	499	864	57%
Box 117	325	853	38%
Box 118	195	880	22%
Box 119	316	990	31%
Box 121	129	526	23%
Box 122	288	717	39%
Box 139	40	40	100%
Box 150	112	972	15%
Box 169	169	728	23%
Add MSS 537	544	744	73%
Add MSS 538	303	858	35%
Add MSS 539	376	948	39%
Overall	9,555	23,881	40%

At the current rate of transcription, the 10,000th transcript should be worked on in the next two or three weeks. We never imagined, when first conceiving of TB, that this figure would be reached so soon. It will certainly be a cause for celebration!

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has contributed to TB during the past seven days. It is as greatly appreciated as ever.