Progress update, 22 to 28 November 2014

Welcome along to the Transcribe Bentham progress update for the period 22 to 28 November 2014, during which time further superb progress has been made by volunteer transcribers.

11,700 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is 129 up on this time last week. Of these transcripts, 10,594 (91%) have been checked and approved by TB staff.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

Box	No. of manuscripts worked on	No. of manuscripts in box	Completion
Box 1	226	794	28%
Box 2	470	753	62%
Box 4	1	694	1%
Box 5	199	290	68%
Box 7	0	167	0%
Box 8	0	284	0%
Box 9	6	266	2%
Box 15	75	914	9%
Box 18	3	192	1%
Box 27	350	350	100%
Box 29	22	122	18%
Box 30	1	193	1%
Box 31	18	302	6%
Box 34	38	398	9%
Box 35	286	439	65%
Box 36	32	418	7%
Box 37	31	487	6%
Box 38	60	424	14%
Box 39	11	282	3%
Box 41	84	528	14%
Box 42	85	910	9%
Box 44	52	201	25%
Box 50	166	198	83%
Box 51	379	940	40%
Box 57	18	420	4%
Box 62	57	565	10%
Box 63	123	345	35%
Box 70	305	350	87%
Box 71	663	663	100%
Box 72	613	664	92%
Box 73	151	151	100%
Box 79	199	199	100%
Box 95	126	147	85%
Box 96	534	539	99%
Box 97	127	296	42%
Box 98	220	499	44%
Box 100	191	422	43%
Box 106	11	581	1%
Box 107	500	538	92%
Box 110	2	671	1%
Box 115	276	307	89%
Box 116	505	864	58%
Box 117	361	853	42%
Box 118	240	880	27%
Box 119	527	990	53%
Box 120	21	686	3%
Box 121	133	526	24%
Box 122	302	717	41%
Box 123	18	443	4%
Box 124	1	383	1%
Box 139	40	40	100%
Box 141	1	381	1%
Box 149	1	581	1%
Box 150	234	972	24%
Box 169	187	728	25%
Add MS 537	729	744	97%
Add MS 538	644	858	75%
Add MS 539	780	948	82%
Add MS 540	39	1012	3%
Add MS 541	226	1258	17%
Overall	11,700	31,767	36%

We are extremely grateful to everyone who has agreed to help us test the tranScriptorium crowdsourcing platform, incorporating Handwritten Text Recognition technology. The feedback we’ve received so far has been enormously helpful. If you would like to evaluate the platform, please do drop us an email.

Thank you, as always, to everyone who has contributed to Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days. It is greatly appreciated by us all.