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The Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England (PASE) has the primary objective of compiling a relational database that presents the information contained in contemporary sources on all named Anglo-Saxons living between AD 597 and 1042. The project is under the directorship of Professors Simon Keynes (University of Cambridge) and Janet Nelson (King's College London), with technical design being provided by members of the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London under the direction of Harold Short. The United Kingdom Arts and Humanities Research Board is funding the project for five years from 2000 to 2004.
After assembling evidence from the sixth to the ninth centuries during the first three years of the project, the team marked a significant advance in 2003 by developing a fully relational database into which information accumulated in the less powerful data-capture databases can be placed. The master database was designed by John Bradley and Dr Hafed Walda, drawing especially on material already gathered from Assers Life of Alfred. The evidence collected in the data-capture databases is now being checked and uploaded into the master database, and a start has been made on the complex task of reconciling names of identical people who appear in more...