Documental memory in Chilean texts of the colonial period (sixteenth and seventeenth centuries)

Abstract

This article explains the basic notions for the conformation of a diachronic textual corpus that embraces the colonial Chilean period, focusing with particular emphasis on the XVI and XVII centuries. Some methodological aspects for the preliminary critical edition of these documents are also discussed, so much with what is concerned with aspects to the paleographical transcription of the same ones, the adaptation to philological specific norms, as well as the critical apparatus that is necessary to implement according to the addressees, without leaving aside the historical and documental rigor. Special mention will be made to the lexicon-semantic requirements for the edition of these documents, the problem of the graphs and the abbreviations, as well as of the previous steps that are necessary to implement for the creation of an optical character recognition program for handwritten texts of the period.