The morphological, syntactic, and lexical features of the texts are fully preserved. A portion of texts are transcribed in phonologized form with stress marks; another part is presented in near-standard orthography. In any case each word form is also annotated with its normalized version. The corpus includes special annotations for features of dialectal morphology, including phenomena absent in the standard language — for example, non-standard gender usage.

Dialect-specific vocabulary is accompanied by definitions. For many lexemes, related words are indicated, either as part of inflectional relationships or synonymy.

The corpus includes extensive metadata, covering:

Phonetic features found in each text (vowel and consonant systems)
Date and genre
Time and place of the events described
Sociological data about the informant
Administrative location of the place where the recording was made
Dialectologist who provided the text
Previous publications of the material

Users can filter subcorpora by many of these parameters, including recording availability and orthographic type.

For some texts prepared before 2008, the metatextual annotation is less detailed at all levels and, in particular, does not include phonetic data.

The corpus provides a full set of search and visualization tools, including:

Regular expression search (for both lemmas and word forms)
Charts
Frequency data
Statistics based on key metadata (including division into okanye and akanye dialects)
N-grams
Frequency dictionaries
Paradigms for nouns (available in the Word at a glance tool)

Work is underway to integrate the corpus’s geographic database of recorded locations with the Digital Dialectological Atlas of the Russian Language.

Frequency dictionary