Progress update, 30 November to 6 December 2013

Welcome along to the progress update for 30 November to 6 December 2013, during which time further excellent progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. This week, 12,352 words of text have been transcribed, along with an additional 3,863 words of TEI XML.

6,567 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 43 on last week’s total. Of these transcripts, 6,290 (95%) have been locked after going through our quality-control process, up 31 on this time last week.

The more detailed state of progress is as follows:

• Box 1: 14 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (1%)
• Box 2: 463 of 753 (61%)
• Box 5: 64 of 290 (22%)
• Box 15: 1 of 914 (0%)
• Box 27: 350 of 350 (100%)
• Box 35: 285 of 439 (64%)
• Box 41: 69 of 528 (12%)
• Box 42: 50 of 910 (5%)
• Box 50: 148 of 198 (74%)
• Box 51: 368 of 940 (39%)
• Box 62: 55 of 565 (10%)
• Box 70: 295 of 350 (84%)
• Box 71: 663 of 663 (100%)
• Box 72: 612 of 664 (92%)
• Box 73: 151 of 151 (100%)
• Box 79: 199 of 199 (100%)
• Box 95: 121 of 147 (82%)
• Box 96: 528 of 539 (97%)
• Box 97: 71 of 296 (23%)
• Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
• Box 100: 181 of 422 (40%)
• Box 107: 443 of 538 (82%)
• Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
• Box 116: 481 of 864 (55%)
• Box 121: 113 of 526 (20%)
• Box 122: 264 of 717 (36%)
• Box 139: 38 of 38 (100%)
• Box 150: 32 of 972 (3%)
• Box 169: 18 of 728 (2%)
• Overall: 42% of the 15,362 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.

Amongst the interesting things transcribed this week are Bentham on experimentation with vacuums (thanks to Keith Thompson for transcribing), and Bentham’s apparent business proposal to Logan Henderson to produce ‘ethereal matches’ (thanks to Jan Copes).

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