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. This unique virtual symposium offers a series of complementary panels that demonstrates OIDA’s value in addressing fundamental questions of importance to historians, health policy and legal experts, journalists, archivists and people with lived experience.

DAY 2: Information Science

• Elizabeth Yakel, University of Michigan
• Daniel van Strien, Hugging Face
• Jill Reilly, National Archives and Records Administration

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

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 Libraries' Digital Research and Curation Center.