Project update – the challenge continues!
By uczwlse, on 20 August 2018
Last month, I set a new challenge for our volunteer transcribers. Could we focus attention on certain boxes to try to get them completely transcribed?
Happily, our volunteers rose to the challenge and set about transcribing. I’m here to give a progress update and to invite everyone to continue transcribing so we can build on our first milestone.
The transcription challenge brought lots of new visitors to the site, tempted several new transcribers to start work and encouraged several old friends to join back in. This is exactly what we like to see!
As shown in the below table, at last count volunteers have transcribed 63 pages of the targeted material. Thank you all!
Box Number |
No. of pages transcribed |
14 | 3 |
50 | 15 |
70 | 21 |
72 | 4 |
95 | 6 |
537 and 538 | 14 |
TOTAL | 63 |
Most of the 63 pages are completely transcribed; some are still awaiting review from the Transcribe Bentham administrators. Having worked with many of our volunteers for years, we are confident that these transcripts are of a high standard.
Let’s keep the transcription challenge going and see how far we can get. Outstanding material can be found in the below tables – there are still pages from Boxes 50, 70, 72, 95, 537 and 538 to be transcribed. Box 14 is now very nearly complete. The only remaining pages are written in shorthand, which cannot be transcribed in full in our current system.
I know that many of these pages are rather difficult – but hopefully transcribers will be able to work on a page here and there, alongside their usual material.
I am also hard at work preparing our next transcription challenge, which will be centred on material that is likely to be of more immediate use to researchers at the Bentham Project.
As ever, I am amazed by everyone’s efforts and I look forward to seeing how transcription progresses. If you have any questions or comments about the challenge, please let me know by email (transcribe.bentham@ucl.ac.uk).
Box 50
Page Number |
Content | Difficulty of handwriting | Foreign language? |
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/070/234/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/237/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/238/001 | 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/070/252/002 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/255/001 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/256/002 | Larceny | Difficult | |
JB/070/261/001 | Larceny | 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/072/183/002 | 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/072/186/001 | 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/072/219/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/219/002 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/001 | Penal code | Moderate | French |
JB/072/220/0 | 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/095/050/001 | 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/095/077/002 | 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/537/363/002 | 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/538/412/001 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | French |
JB/538/412/002 | Jeremy to Samuel Bentham | Moderate | French |