Information system “Dialect lexis and onomastics of Karelia” as a dynamic media resource for local studies

The article describes the experience of creating an information system (media library) “Dialect Lexis and Onomastics of Karelia” (DLOK), a fundamental digital data archive. DLOK media library includes language facts extracted from written records of the period between the XVI and the XIX centuries, folklore texts, dialect recordings made during the expeditions over the past 60 years -data stored in the archives of the Laboratory of Regional Linguistic Studies and Language Ecology and the Research Laboratory for Local and Microhistory of Karelia at Petrozavodsk State University. The information system is equipped with tools for editing, searching and visualizing data in relation to the electronic map of Karelia and the adjacent areas. Currently, the system includes three databases: Russian dialect vocabulary of Karelia, historical anthroponymy of Karelia according to the documents from the XVI-XVII centuries, and onomasticon of fairy tales of Karelia. The databases included in the DLOK information system can serve as an example for creating similar systematized structures in other regions of Russia. The media library is a dynamic electronic information resource: in the future it is planned to create not only lexical, but also textual databases, including information on audio and video media, which will enable to describe the materials using various linguistic approaches.