The paper addresses the challenge of converting MIDT, an existing dependency‐ based Italian treebank resulting from the harmonization and merging of smaller resources, into the Stanford Dependencies annotation formalism, with the final aim of constructing a standard‐compliant resource for the Italian language. Achieved results include a methodology for converting treebank annotations belonging to the same dependency‐based family, the Italian Stanford Dependency Treebank (ISDT), and an Italian localization of the Stanford Dependency scheme.