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The Juggernaut: Transcribe Bentham and crowdsourcing historical data
Kris Grint, School of History, University of St Andrews
<head>NOTORIETY Particular Codes — Principles of their Establishment. <add>R.S.</add></head><head>V</head>
<p><del>In the selection of the Titles for the Codes</del><lb/>In the selection of such Titles to which separate<lb/><note>In the business of settling <add>establishing</add> what <del>Titles</del> shall be the <add>Personal</add> Titles to which separate</note> Codes shall be attributed, it will not be sufficient<lb/>to look for them only in the Statute-<lb/>Book: but a separate Code must be established<lb/>wheresoever any set of Provisions, (or even any<lb/>single Provision) are seen which respect <add>affect</add><lb/>any set of persons, who in common language<lb/>are <del><gap/></del> comprized under a known & separate<lb/><add>appropriated</add> denomination. <note>Wheresoever the Law is seen to exert it's dominion over a mode of action the nature of which is to be practised <add>performed</add> not by all persons in general, but by a particular <hi rend='underline'>sort</hi> of persons, distinguishable from the rest by <del>any</del> <add>a</add> peculiar name.</note></p>
<p>Thus for example, there ought <add>not the less</add> to be a Code<lb/>bearing the nam of the Undertaker's Law<lb/><note>At the same a Code entitled the Undertaker's Law is among those that will be required</note> <del>although</del> <add>because</add> <del>T</del>there is no such word <add>for example</add> in the Statute<lb/>Book as Undertaker - For There are provisions<lb/>regulating <add>under penalties</add> the manner in which Burial is<lb/>to be performed: <note>30 Car. 2. c. 3 32 Car. 2 c. 1 <unclear>Rult</unclear>. Ind. Wool. 37.</note>& <del>is</del> the persons, <del>by</del> whose occupation<lb/><del><gap/> to</del> <add>that is,</add> <del>is</del> are <del>called</del> <add>known</add> in common <del>lan</del>guage<lb/><add>by the appelation</add> Undertakers, <add>& no other.</add> & <del>these Undertakers are</del></p>
<head>NOTORIETY Particular Codes — Principles of their Establishment. <add>R.S.</add></head><head>V</head>
<p><del>In the selection of the Titles for the Codes</del><lb/>In the selection of such Titles to which separate<lb/><note>In the business of settling <add>establishing</add> what <del>Titles</del> shall be the <add>Personal</add> Titles to which separate</note> Codes shall be attributed, it will not be sufficient<lb/>to look for them only in the Statute-<lb/>Book: but a separate Code must be established<lb/>wheresoever any set of Provisions, (or even any<lb/>single Provision) are seen which respect <add>affect</add><lb/>any set of persons, who in common language<lb/>are <del><gap/></del> comprized under a known & separate<lb/><add>appropriated</add> denomination. <note>Wheresoever the Law is seen to exert it's dominion over a mode of action the nature of which is to be practised <add>performed</add> not by all persons in general, but by a particular <hi rend='underline'>sort</hi> of persons, distinguishable from the rest by <del>any</del> <add>a</add> peculiar name.</note></p>
<p>Thus for example, there ought <add>not the less</add> to be a Code<lb/>bearing the nam of the Undertaker's Law<lb/><note>At the same a Code entitled the Undertaker's Law is among those that will be required</note> <del>although</del> <add>because</add> <del>T</del>there is no such word <add>for example</add> in the Statute<lb/>Book as Undertaker - For There are provisions<lb/>regulating <add>under penalties</add> the manner in which Burial is<lb/>to be performed: <note>30 Car. 2. c. 3 32 Car. 2 c. 1 <unclear>Rult</unclear>. Ind. Wool. 37.</note>& <del>is</del> the persons, <del>by</del> whose occupation<lb/><del><gap/> to</del> <add>that is,</add> <del>is</del> are <del>called</del> <add>known</add> in common <del>lan</del>guage<lb/><add>by the appelation</add> Undertakers, <add>& no other.</add> & <del>these Undertakers are</del></p>
Average no. of transcripts per year
Earliest date all pages transcribed
Without Transcribe Bentham 1,076 2081
Overall transcription rate since 2010 2,704 2036
Transcription rate 1 January 2014 until 30 September 2014
5,564 2025
Forecast completed transcription of the Bentham Papers
Number of transcripts checked
Total number of alterations to transcripts
Total number of alterations to text of transcripts
Total number of alterations to mark-up of transcripts
Average number of alterations to text of transcripts
Average number of alterations to mark-up of transcripts
4,364 34,335 13,279 21,056 3 5
Quality of submitted transcripts, 1 Oct 2012 to 27 June 2014
Number of transcripts checked
No alterations required to transcript
1-5 alterations
6-9 alterations
10+ alterations
4,364
100%
1,995
46%
1,765
40%
263
6%
341
8%
Quality of submitted transcripts, 1 Oct 2012 to 27 June 2014
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