Progress update, 8 to 14 February 2014
By Tim Causer, on 14 February 2014
Welcome along to the progress update for the period 25 January to 7 February, during which time further steady progress has been made by Transcribe Bentham volunteers. 6,021 words of Bentham text have been transcribed this week, along with a further 2,554 words of TEI XML.
6,924 manuscripts have now been transcribed or partially-transcribed, which is an increase of 34 on this time last week. This means that we are only 76 more transcripts away from having our 7,000th transcript in hand, which is a tremendous achievement on the part of volunteer transcribers. Of these transcripts, 6,608 (95%) have passed our quality-control procedures and have been locked, up 31 on the last progress update.
The more detailed state of progress is as follows:
- Box 1: 54 manuscripts transcribed of 794 (6%)
- Box 2: 464 of 753 (61%)
- Box 5: 145 of 290 (50%)
- Box 15: 4 of 914 (1%)
- Box 27: 350 of 350 (COMPLETE)
- Box 35: 286 of 439 (65%)
- Box 41: 69 of 528 (12%)
- Box 42: 53 of 910 (5%)
- Box 50: 152 of 198 (76%)
- Box 51: 370 of 940 (39%)
- Box 62: 55 of 565 (10%)
- Box 70: 295 of 350 (84%)
- Box 71: 663 of 663 (COMPLETE)
- Box 72: 612 of 664 (92%)
- Box 73: 151 of 151 (COMPLETE)
- Box 79: 199 of 199 (COMPLETE)
- Box 95: 122 of 147 (82%)
- Box 96: 528 of 539 (97%)
- Box 97: 71 of 296 (23%)
- Box 98: 214 of 499 (42%)
- Box 100: 182 of 422 (41%)
- Box 107: 456 of 538 (84%)
- Box 115: 276 of 307 (89%)
- Box 116: 484 of 864 (55%)
- Box 117: 93 of 853 (10%)
- Box 119: 9 of 990 (1%)
- Box 121: 119 of 526 (21%)
- Box 122: 279 of 717 (38%)
- Box 139: 40 of 40 (COMPLETE)
- Box 150: 45 of 972 (4%)
- Box 169: 84 of 728 (11%)
- Overall: 40% of the 17,205 manuscripts currently uploaded to the website have been transcribed.
Elsewhere in the world of Transcribe Bentham, a new article on how discoveries made by volunteer transcribers could help shape future avenues for research is now available for download, and a Handwritten Text Recognition contest, based on data from the tranScriptorium project (and featuring 433 Bentham manuscripts) is to be launched in the next few days.
Thank you, as always, to everyone who has given their time and effort so generously to Transcribe Bentham during the last seven days, it remains as greatly appreciated as ever.
One Response to “Progress update, 8 to 14 February 2014”
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Fantastic progress. Is there any rough ETA on completion?