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

Author

Schmidt, Heidi

Author_Institution

Center for Knowledge Manage., Univ. of California San Francisco Libr., CA, USA

fYear

2003

fDate

27-31 May 2003

Firstpage

404

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.

Keywords

digital libraries; meta data; middleware; search engines; tobacco industry; DLXS middleware; Legacy Tobacco Documents Library; US tobacco company; XPAT search engine; document image; master settlement agreement; public digital library; searchable metadata; Displays; Image converters; Knowledge management; Middleware; Search engines; Software libraries; Storage area networks; Stress; System performance; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Digital Libraries, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 Joint Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1939-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/JCDL.2003.1204922

Filename

1204922