The roadies take the stage: on-going development and maintenance of the Legacy Tobacco Documents Library at the University of California San Francisco

Abstract

The Legacy Tobacco Documents Library (LTDL) was launched on January 31, 2002. The launch was the successful completion of an intense one-year project to build a public digital library of approximately 4 million tobacco industry documents released under terms of the master settlement agreement between US tobacco companies and the National Association of Attorneys General. After being open for a year and expanding the size of the collection by another million documents, the LTDL team is faced with several challenges. We built the LTDL using the University of Michigan's DLXS middleware and the XPAT search engine. The LTDL is based on searchable metadata and document images.