The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA) is a digital archive co-created by the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University containing millions of documents from the opioid industry that shed light on the root causes of the opioid crisis.

DAY 2: Information Science

In the digital age, organizational records are being produced on a scale that dwarfs physical archives and even digital archives based only on electronic documents. Speakers will talk about the challenges and opportunities of managing and providing access to massive digital collections like OIDA.

• 12:00-12:15 Welcome (Anne Seymour, Welch Medical Library, Johns Hopkins University)
• 12:15-1:00 Keynote (Laurie Allen, Library of Congress) 
• 1:00-1:30 Presentation #1 (Rob Sanderson, Yale University) 
• 1:30-2:00 Presentation #2 (Ben Lee, University of Washington) 
• 2:00-2:25 Facilitated Discussion (Kevin Hawkins, Johns Hopkins University)  
• 2:25-2:30 Wrap-up

OIDA was launched by UCSF and Johns Hopkins in March 2021 as a free public resource. The digital repository includes publicly disclosed documents arising from litigation brought against opioid manufacturers, distributors, pharmacies and consultants by local and state governments and tribal communities. Read more

The Hopkins team includes faculty and staff from the schools of Public Health, Medicine, Nursing, and Engineering, the Welch Medical Library, and the Sheridan Llibraries' Digital Research and Curation Center.