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.