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Progress update, 30 May to 5 June 2015

By Tim Causer, on 5 June 2015

Welcome along to the Transcribe Bentham progress update for the period 30 May to 5 June 2015, during which time further steady progress has been made by volunteer transcribers.

13,146 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 26 on this time last week. Of these transcripts, 12,122 (92%) have been checked and approved by TB staff. It’s quite unbelievable to think that so many transcripts have been produced as we approach TB‘s fifth birthday in September.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

Box No. of manuscripts worked on No. of manuscripts in box Completion
Box 1 253 794 32%
Box 2 472 753 62%
Box 4 2 694 1%
Box 5 200 290 68%
Box 7 3 167 1%
Box 8 6 284 2%
Box 9 41 266 15%
Box 15 79 914 10%
Box 18 4 192 2%
Box 27 350 350 COMPLETE
Box 29 22 122 18%
Box 30 2 193 1%
Box 31 19 302 6%
Box 34 40 398 10%
Box 35 286 439 65%
Box 36 34 418 8%
Box 37 32 487 6%
Box 38 119 424 29%
Box 39 12 282 4%
Box 41 87 528 14%
Box 42 88 910 9%
Box 44 53 201 26%
Box 50 171 198 85%
Box 51 385 940 40%
Box 57 18 420 4%
Box 62 72 565 12%
Box 63 155 345 44%
Box 70 306 350 87%
Box 71 663 663 COMPLETE
Box 72 614 664 92%
Box 73 151 151 COMPLETE
Box 79 199 199 COMPLETE
Box 95 126 147 85%
Box 96 534 539 99%
Box 97 139 296 46%
Box 98 223 499 44%
Box 100 194 422 43%
Box 106 115 581 19%
Box 107 502 538 93%
Box 110 7 671 1%
Box 115 276 307 89%
Box 116 506 864 58%
Box 117 365 853 42%
Box 118 255 880 28%
Box 119 535 990 54%
Box 120 29 686 4%
Box 121 134 526 24%
Box 122 304 717 41%
Box 123 42 443 9%
Box 124 15 383 3%
Box 139 40 40 COMPLETE
Box 141 4 381 1%
Box 149 5 581 1%
Box 150 887 972 91%
Box 169 193 728 26%
Add MS 537 730 744 98%
Add MS 538 758 858 88%
Add MS 539 834 948 87%
Add MS 540 102 1012 10%
Add MS 541 353 1258 28%
Overall 13,146 31,560 41%

Box 150 continues towards completion, requiring fewer than a hundred more transcripts until we’re there!

We recently began testing TSX, a transcription platform which incorporates Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology developed for the tranScriptorium project. As well as transcribing and encoding, you can correct a transcript produced by the computer or, if you encounter words you are unsure about, request suggestions produced by the HTR engine. If you would like to try out TSX, please do visit the website and register. We recommend that you access TSX via the Chrome browser running on Windows 7 or above. Future development includes the doing-away with visible text mark-up, allowing you to concentrate solely on transcribing the manuscripts. Please do drop us a line if you have any questions about TSX!

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

 

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