On the problem of creating an electronic consolidated dialect dictionary

The article addresses the issue of creating an electronic format for a consolidated dictionary of Russian dialects. In the context of discussing the forthcoming reissue of the Dictionary of Russian Folk Dialects, such a form is seen as a necessary milestone on the way to solving the pressing problems of Russian dialect lexicography. The electronic format opens up new possibilities for lexicographic decisions, in particular for reflecting the functional features of live dialect speech, for presenting ethnocultural information in a dictionary entry. The creation of an electronic consolidated dialect dictionary involves the development of a database that reflects dialect vocabulary taking into account the interaction of separate dialect systems. The database is understood as a storage system with a wide range of functions for processing information. This will facilitate the systematization of dialect material for its subsequent processing in the framework of the future electronic consolidated dialect dictionary, including materials known to science but disparate and interpreted differently in regional lexicographic projects. In the future, the structure of the proposed database will make it possible to create an electronic card index, containing both cards already processed, and cards based on new, original (collected in the field) materials. The geographic and temporal specification proposed in the database will serve as the basis for the creation of lexical atlases, as well as metachronal maps, allowing the linguistic landscape of a certain territory to be displayed over a given time interval. The priorities are: 1) analysis of the structure of the source data, formation of requirements for the format of their presentation; 2) development of a format for the presentation of metadata on the spatiotemporal characteristics of dialect units that would meet the requirements of multimodality and interoperability; 3) development of an ontology of dialect data and metadata for semantic annotation (in particular, when correlated with external ontologies SKOS, Lemon, LexInfo), etc.