Library and Archives Services

Truth Tobacco Documents Library - This  archive of 14 million pages of documents created by tobacco companies about their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, scientific research and political activities, hosted by the UCSF Library, was my project from its inception to its launch in 2002. As Director of Content and Services, I created the metadata schema, worked with a team of programmers to create the SQL queries by which the XML could serve up documents on the fly, assisted in grant writing to fund the project, supervised the web development of the initial site, trained indexers to add metadata to new collections, trained new users (educators, public health professionals, journalists, graduate students, researchers) to  seek and find. This was, and may yet be, the world's largest publicly available digital library. This model has now been extended to present document collections on opioids, fossil fuels, chemicals and drugs. 

I also assisted in the development of standards such as the Tobacco Document Citation Format, The Tobacco Document Subject Thesaurus, and the XML schema which integrated the seven original tobacco industry document sets provided in litigation to the National Association of Attorneys General (NAAG).