Avarenta Caridade: edição em perspectiva informática de assentos da Misericórdia da Bahia

Abstract

In this dissertation, the minutes of Misericórdia da Bahia, a brotherhood founded in the City of Salvador in the second half of the 16th century, are edited. The minutes record provisions of a deliberative nature by the council of this brotherhood on issues related to colonial Bahian society. The corpus consists of 18 documents that portray episodes of violence and resistance of social minorities, such as women, innocents, prisoners and enslaved people. In this research, by giving access to the aforementioned documentation, Philology was linked to Computing, in order to expand knowledge about the history of Bahia and the appreciation of its written cultural heritage, understanding the importance of philological studies in the transposition of news from the past. and in the assertive interpretation of historical documents. Furthermore, based on the development of an interpretative edition from a computer perspective of the said minutes of the Misericórdia da Bahia, alternatives were used for the use of cybernetic technologies in philological work. To this end, a digital repository for accessing and storing philological editions was developed, through the construction of a non-relational database oriented to documents accessed via a mobile application. This architecture enabled the non-linear reading of edited documents, which is the premise of hypertextual reading, offering gains in organization and access to philological editions.