Ortnamnsregistret: electronic collection of Sweden’s place-names

The article deals with the toponymic database of Sweden – Ortnamnsregistret. It also draws attention to issues of pre-processing toponymic data, which is traditional for the Swedish toponymic science. Some aspects of the database functioning is demonstrated and conclusions based on the analysis of the database structure and contents are drawn. Ortnamnsregistret can be useful not only in the educational process, but in linguistic and cultural studies as well.