As a significant component of Mongolian language resources, idioms have long history and carry rich cultural heritage. They provide a valuable resource for the research fields of Mongolian civilization. But, with the development of internet and information society, vocabulary of Mongolian idioms has shrunk, resulting in declining on the frequency of usage, gradual disappearance of Mongolian culture that Mongolian language has carried, and thus facing a serious challenge. Conducting a digital research on Mongolian idioms and developing the Semantic Knowledge Base of the Mongolian Idioms is not only the best way to protect, develop and utilize Mongolian idioms, but also the basic project of constructing a full-scale platform of Mongolian language. For the unsatisfactory status quo of the research in the semantics of Mongolian idioms at present, the paper will dissertates the initial framework of the digital research on the semantic knowledge of Mongolian idioms from the perspectives of importance of research, methods, contents, basic works and anticipative results.

Keywords: Mongolian idioms, Semantic knowledge, Digital research, formalized description, knowledge base, management software, learning software