At its meeting on 17 October 2008, the International Criminal Court Legal Tools Advisory Committee (LTAC) approved the outsourcing of the administration and web-hosting of the Legal Tools collections and databases to the new Legal Tools Database (LTD) and Website (LTW), to be accessed through an exclusive link on the ICC’s website. The ICC will now establish a contractual basis for this outsourcing.
On 6 October 2008, Morten Bergsmo, Senior Researcher at PRIO, and Klaus Rackwitz, Senior Administrative Manager at the ICC Office of the Prosecutor, met with the team at the University of Saarbrücken in Germany to discuss their development of the LTD and LTW, a process that is virtually completed. The LTW is supported by the excellent SINO search engine, as well as a separated browse function, both of which make the LTW accessible and efficient. The LTD and LTW are planned to go online in early 2009, with 35000 documents already being integrated into the LTD.
