Norsk Ordbok is to be completed and published by the end of 2014. To meet this demand, the eightremaining volumes are written into an editor programmc and stored in a database. All information categoriesin the dictionary therefore need to be reworked, rcdcfincd and tightcned up in content, and organisedmore tightly in relation to othcr catcgories, than what is rcquired in a traditional mam",1.ript. Thisarticle prescnts a survey of the proccss of recreating the dictionary structurc, a process in which oncmust weigh the logical against the practicablc, and deeide which conventions and proccdures can beautomated through the editor programme, and which decisions should be lefl to the human editor. Themain premisc is that the character of Norsk Ordbok must not be altcred. This major dictionary shall,when completed, gi ve a united view of Norwegian dialccts and Nynorsk standard language
