Describing Linde’s Dictionary of Polish for Digitalisation Purposes

The present paper describes the attempts at digitalising the so called Linde’s dictionary of Polish published in 6 volumes between 1807 and 1814 by Samuel Bogumił Linde. We are working on a formal description of the dictionary’s structure, whose purpose will be to allow programmers to design a tool for automatic tagging of the text. The dictionary is multilingual, so performing OCR with good quality is a difficult task. The paper also describes the indexes that are going to be added. Compiling an a tergo index and indexes of abbreviations, qualifiers and the names of quotation authors would improve the quality and usefulness of the digitalised version. Our work with the 2 edition of the dictionary (1854-1861) allows us to test several tools (in different stages of development) that are being developed within the framework of a Polish government grant directed by Janusz S. Bień.