Project update – challenge for our volunteers!
By uczwlse, on 16 July 2018
Following on from the results of our most recent user survey in 2017, I have been working steadily to make improvements to the Transcribe Bentham Transcription Desk – to make it a more fun (and productive!) place to be.
I have already enhanced the transcription guidelines, tried to extend a better welcome to new transcribers and ensured volunteers are clearly credited for their work. I am also hopeful that some technical improvements will be possible once we migrate our platform to servers at UCL (this process should take place in the next few weeks – more details in the Transcribe Bentham newsletter). I plan to document and reflect on some of these changes in a future blog post…
But for now, I want to focus on another improvement that was suggested in our user survey. Our transcribers requested more guidance in selecting manuscripts to transcribe – in terms of priority, difficulty and subject matter. It is fantastic to have so much digitised Bentham material on the site but it can make it overwhelming for volunteers to pick a page to transcribe!
In the below tables, I have a made a first attempt to compile some suggested material to transcribe. For our first target, I have focused on a selection of boxes that have nearly been completely transcribed – I hereby challenge our volunteer transcribers to try to get these boxes finished! This challenge is of course open to all – Transcribe Bentham newbies and our longstanding volunteers.
There is a mixture of content here including writings on legal procedure, penal codes, burglary and turnpikes, as well as correspondence and some material written in French.
Unfortunately some of this material is difficult – perhaps there is a reason it hasn’t been transcribed so far! But I hope there might at least be a page or two to interest all our transcribers.
The list of Untranscribed Manuscripts will be updated regularly to show when pages from this list have been worked on. This list must be updated manually so please bear in mind that there may be a bit of a time lag with this, especially over weekends when UCL is closed.
So I wish you all good luck! And as always, if you have any questions or comments, please let me know by email (transcribe.bentham@ucl.ac.uk).
Box 14
Page number | Content |
Difficulty of handwriting |
Foreign language? |
JB/014/283/001 | Deontology | Easy | |
JB/014/295/001 | Deontology | Easy | French |
JB/014/296/001 | Deontology | Easy | French |
Box 50
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting | Foreign language? |
JB/050/007/001 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/048/001 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/074/001 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/074/002 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/078/001 | Murder | Difficult | |
JB/050/080/001 | Theft (short page) | Difficult | |
JB/050/082/001 | Certainty in law | Difficult | |
JB/050/091/001 | Legal procedure | Moderate | |
JB/050/092/001 | Legal procedure | Moderate | |
JB/050/113/001 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/124/002 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/126/002 | Legal procedure (short page) | Difficult | |
JB/050/161/001 | Lawyers | Difficult | |
JB/050/162/001 | Legal procedure | Difficult | |
JB/050/164/001 | Chances for the guilty | Difficult | |
JB/050/174/001 | Legal procedure (table form) | Difficult | French |
Box 70
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting |
Foreign language? |
JB/070/149/001 | Laws in general | Moderate | Latin? |
JB/070/159/001 | Laws in general | Moderate | |
JB/070/194/001 | Libels | Difficult | |
JB/070/194/002 | Libels | Difficult | |
JB/070/225/001 | Embezzlement | Difficult | |
JB/070/226/001 | Embezzlement | Difficult | |
JB/070/233/001 | Theft | Difficult | |
JB/070/234/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/235/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/236/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/237/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/238/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/240/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/244/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/245/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/246/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/247/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/249/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/251/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/252/002 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/255/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/256/002 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/257/002 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/259/001 | Theft (short page) | Difficult | |
JB/070/260/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/261/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/262/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/263/001 | Burglary | Difficult | |
JB/070/264/001 | Burglary | Difficult | |
JB/070/266/001 | Burglary | Difficult | |
JB/070/267/001 | Burglary | Difficult | |
JB/070/272/001 | Abortion | Difficult | |
JB/070/277/002 | Mischief | Difficult | |
JB/070/279/002 | Insolvency | Difficult | |
JB/070/284/002 | Laws in general | Difficult |
Box 72
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting |
Foreign language? |
JB/072/004/001 | Offences against person (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/006/001 | Offences against person (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/006/002 | Offences against person (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/007/001 | Offences against property (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/007/002 | Offences against property (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/008/001 | Offences against property (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/008/002 | Offences against property (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/009/001 | Penal code (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/010/001 | Offences against revenue (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/010/002 | Offences against revenue (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/011/001 | Offences against trade (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/012/001 | Offences against morality (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/014/001 | Offences against public property (short table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/016/001 | Offences against government (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/016/002 | Offences against government (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/018/001 | Offences against national peace (short table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/019/001 | Offences against the coin (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/090/001 | Offences against property (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/072/106/002 | Penal code | Moderate | |
JB/072/183/001 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/183/002 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/183/003 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/183/004 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/184/001 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/184/002 | Penal code (short page) | Difficult | French |
JB/072/186/001 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/215/001 | Penal code (table form) | Difficult | French |
JB/072/216/001 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/216/002 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/216/003 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/216/004 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/217/001 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/217/002 | Penal code | Difficult | French |
JB/072/218/001 | Penal code (table form) | Difficult | Latin? |
JB/072/219/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/219/002 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/002 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/003 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/004 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/221/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/221/002 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/221/003 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/221/004 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/222/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
Box 95
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting |
Foreign language? |
JB/095/039/001 | Turnpike act (table form) | Moderate | |
JB/095/043/001 | Turnpike act (table form, numbers) | Easy | |
JB/095/047/002 | Turnpike act (short page) | Difficult | |
JB/095/048/001 | Turnpike act (table form) | Difficult | |
JB/095/049/001 | Turnpike act (table form) | Difficult | |
JB/095/050/001 | Turnpike act (table form) | Difficult | |
JB/095/059/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/060/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/071/002 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/074/001 | Turnpike act (short page) | Easy | |
JB/095/077/002 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/079/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/079/002 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/096/001 | Turnpike act | Moderate | |
JB/095/097/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/105/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/109/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/110/001 | Turnpike act | Difficult | |
JB/095/112/004 | Turnpike act | Difficult |
Boxes 537 and 538
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting |
Foreign language? |
JB/537/361/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/537/363/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/537/364/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/537/364/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/537/365/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/537/366/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | French |
JB/538/204/001 | Marquis de Chastellux to Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/204/002 | Marquis de Chastellux to Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/212/001 | Marquis de Chastellux to Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/227/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | |
JB/538/309/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Difficult | |
JB/538/387/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | |
JB/538/388/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | |
JB/538/388/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | |
JB/538/407/002 | Samuel to Jeremy Bentham | Easy | |
JB/538/409/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | |
JB/538/409/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | |
JB/538/412/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/412/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/413/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | French |
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