Fwd: Fw: Opioid Industry Documents Archive Launches OIDA Toolbox to Support Computational Methods on the Archive

[Kevin Hawkins]

Sharing this announcement, which will surely be of interest to this group!

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Kevin S. Hawkins (he/him)
Program Director (for Johns Hopkins University)

UCSF-JHU Opioid Industry Documents Archive

 

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Accessing the raw data behind OIDA

Opioid Industry Documents Archive www.industrydocuments.ucsf.edu/opioids Opioid Industry Documents Archive Launches OIDA Toolbox to Support Computational Methods on the Archive The Opioid Industry Documents Archive (OIDA), a collaborative undertaking between the University of California, San Francisco and Johns Hopkins University, today announced the launch of the OIDA Toolbox, a website created to promote data exploration and visualization of OIDA, providing new ways for the public to make sense of its massive collection of more than 3 million documents. The OIDA Toolbox provides a central access point for documentation and ready-to-run code to help users access the raw data behind OIDA, which includes metadata, the documents themselves in various file formats, and the text extracted from the documents. To supplement the UCSF Industry Document Library’s Solr API, researchers now have the option to access and work with all of OIDA’s raw data through Amazon Web Services or through Johns Hopkins University’s SciServer virtual environment.  “The volume of data can be overwhelming—how can researchers review millions of documents efficiently? We can help!” said Kevin Hawkins, OIDA program director for Johns Hopkins University. “The toolbox will continue to grow as users make requests and OIDA identifies new ways to engage with the data.” The OIDA Toolbox promotes original scholarship in disciplines such as public health, communications, sociology, history, linguistics and computer science. Ultimately, discoveries from an OIDA data toolbox can help to improve and safeguard public policy and public health, and to ensure that the opioid-related harms that have taken place never occur again. “Our ability to mine the documents for information that will assist the public health community should be greatly enhanced with this technology,” said Dr. Christopher K. Haddock, chief data and analytics officer and senior scientist at NDRI-USA, who is one of the first to try out these tools. He added, “You’ve already saved us months of work!” OIDA was launched by UCSF and Johns Hopkins in March 2021 as a free public resource. The digital repository includes previously internal documents made public through legal settlements to enable multiple audiences to explore and investigate information which shines a light on the opioid crisis The Archive contains more than 15.3 million pages in 3.4 million documents and is expected to continue to grow for years to come. Documents are full-text searchable and include an array of relevant materials from many different companies, including emails, memos, presentations, sales reports, budgets, audit reports, Drug Enforcement Administration briefings, meeting agendas and minutes, expert witness reports and trial transcripts.  OIDA may be of use to many different parties, including families harmed by the opioid crisis, as well as the media, health care practitioners, students, lawyers, and researchers. Major news outlets such as the Washington Post and New York Times and academic resources like Evidence & Policy and the American Journal of Public Health have published investigative reports and analysis using OIDA documents. To learn more and access the OIDA Toolbox, visit https://oida-resources.jhu.edu/oida-toolbox/. Email opioid...@jh.edu with questions or for more information.

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