Prosopography in the Digital Age: Current Situation, Prospects and Perspectives in the Light of the Forthcoming “Belgian Magistrates” Application

Abstract

This chapter introduces the relational database “Prosopography and directory of Belgian magistrates, 1795–1962”. The authors return on methodological issues and technical choices made to conceptualise this tool (especially the time management and the evolving nature of the data). They then present the structure articulated around four large interconnected parts: the people, the courts, the appointments and the sources.