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By Elaine LeongThings are buzzing here at EMROC headquarters! Tomorrow, we are hosting the first ever annual EMROC transcribathon.[caption id="attachment_685" align="alignright" width="202"] Scriptorium, 15th Century. From Project Gutenberg eText 16531: Old St. Paul's Cathedral, by William Benham. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.[/caption]On Wednesday, an international group of us will work collectively to transcribe the seventeenth-century recipe book of Rebecca Winche. Groups of transcribers will be joining us from the University of Essex (at 11 am UK time), the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (at noon Berlin time), the Folger Shakespeare Library (at 9 am, D.C. time), University of Saskatchewan, University of Texas, Arlington, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, Pacific Lutheran University and the Huntington Library (circa 2 pm West Coast time).We're pretty sure that this is the first international cross-timezone transcribathon in the the history of such events and we're super excited to organize and host this digital humanities and pedagogical experiment. It's not too late to join us. Just email Lisa Smith at lisa.smith@essex.ac.uk.For those of you already signed-up and who'd like to take a sneak peak at the manuscript and familiarize yourself with the transcription system and more, visit our Transcribathon 101 page. However, no sneaky transcribing before Wednesday!We will be live tweeting the event - join us at #transcribathon.Get your keyboards ready, ladies and gentlemen.