The Davy Notebooks project is finished! Since launching in May 2021, more than 3,400 volunteers have helped to transcribe 83 manuscript notebooks of Sir Humphry Davy — that’s more than 10,500 pages of text! We’re so grateful for all of the time and effort that you’ve put into this transcription. It’s truly an incredible collective effort!

However, the team still needs your help! As part of their efforts to review the transcriptions, incorporate TEI markup, and ingest the final versions into the Lancaster Digital Collections platform, the team is looking for keen volunteers interested in further participation.

From a post on the project’s Talk board:

As a community of expert transcribers of Davy, we still need your help as we now focus on finishing the editing phase. We’ve created a new subforum on Talk – ‘Editing’. On this subforum, the project team will reach out to you, our transcribers, to help us clarify difficult words and/or obscure features of Davy’s text that we encounter as we continue to edit. We’d really appreciate your thoughts on the pages we’ll post in the Editing subforum. The link is here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/humphrydavy/davy-notebooks-project/talk/6122.

The team also notes that they’re running a volunteer survey, and are planning to create a Volunteer Advisory Group, made up of Zooniverse users who have gained expertise in transcribing Davy’s hand through participation in the project, and who might also be interested in helping with specific topics or non-English language text found in the notebooks. Those interested should reach out on the ‘Editing’ Talk board linked in the quoted text above.