Can a machine retrieve the cultural meaning from a corpus of sources? This article addresses the scope and restrictions that digitization, transcription, and data modeling represents for machine-mediated readings of legal, historical records, particularly those derived from the cultural context of Hispanic empire. It compares the dichotomy between the ambiguous language of ancient regime legal texts and the unambiguity required by machinereadable files. Besides, is problematize the corporal reading and the strategy of distant-reading and visualizations as a model for interpretation of vast bulk of textual data. We propose a strategy for segmentation and data modelling for the approach the textual logic of ancient regime legal records based on their hierarchization, interrelation with nonjudiciary sources (theological, historical, philosophical, etc.), its internal segmentation, the non-linear logic of the normative, and the authoritative requirements of compilations and relevant legal works. Its conclude that the advantages of automation are attached to the ability to manipulate files without distorting the original meaning of the texts, therefore, it proposes the necessity to develop standardized vocabularies that help to avoid anachronistic approaches regarding Modern Age legal sources.

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“司法政府”的司法文化与记忆数字化。伊比利亚美洲法律史的数据建模和数字方法

机器能否从来源语料库中检索文化意义？本文讨论了数字化、转录和数据建模对于以机器为媒介的法律、历史记录阅读所代表的范围和限制，特别是那些源自西班牙帝国文化背景的记录。它比较了古代政权法律文本的歧义语言与机器可读文件所需的明确性之间的二分法。此外，将肉体阅读和远距离阅读和可视化的策略问题化，作为解释大量文本数据的模型。我们提出了一种分割和数据建模策略，用于基于古代政权法律记录的文本逻辑的方法，基于它们的层次结构、与非司法来源（神学、历史、哲学、等）、其内部分割、规范的非线性逻辑、汇编及相关法律著作的权威性要求。它的结论是，自动化的优势在于能够在不扭曲文本原始含义的情况下操作文件，因此，它提出了开发标准化词汇表的必要性，这有助于避免关于现代法律资源的不合时宜的方法。