The electronic medium offers improved search facilities and allows much moreinformation in comparison with the paper dictionary. Some of these possibilities areoutlined and discussed in relation to ordnet.dk, a Danish electronic reference workthat combines three existing lexicographic resources into one site available on theInternet. The project involves digitalization of the 28-volume historical dictionaryOrdbog over det danske Sprog (ODS, Dictionary of the Danish Language) andintegrating it with its 5 supplementary volumes. The ODS together with the modern,corpus-based Den Danske Ordbog (The Danish Dictionary) provide dictionarycoverage of the Danish language from c. 1700 to the present. The integration of thetwo dictionaries with the corpus web site Korpus 2000 will enable the user to accessfurther linguistic material, and will enable lexicographers to utilize corpus materialin new and more focused ways in the individual entries. Given the limits of amedium-sized project (4–5 lexicographers, 6 years) the editorial staff need to make anumber of strategic choices among the options available. At present, priority is givento developing onomasiological search facilities and exploring ways of integratingcorpus and dictionary material
