Database Collection of Transcripts for the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia

The transcripts at this site are no longer being updated. For a current listing of processed transcripts please go to the alternative site here http://ictytranscripts.dyndns.org/

Transcripts at the new site are uploaded and processed every 24 hours.

Please send any suggestions, comments or requests to pksky@finestplanet.com.

The collection of transcripts at this site is based on HTML pages gleaned from the ICTY Cases & Judgements UN hosted website. Those transcripts are crude line numbered copies of the original notes taken at the trial. The transcripts as I post them have been processed with Perl scripts utilizing Regular Expressions to remove and add HTML tags in order to make them more legible. The pages were then further processed to extract date, witness name and my file locations into database files. The transcripts are then linked to the below pages by way of PHP and a MySQL database that tracks their location. MySQL is an open source database system and this particular "distributed" database installation is hosted commercially for this site. Like the transcripts posted by the ICTY, these are not official transcripts. Any errors and omission should be considered my own and should be brought to my attention at pksky@finestplanet.com.

• Databases

  • MySQL Database of the Entire ICTY Trial Transcripts

    This is not just a database managed collection of links to HTML pages of transcripts. It is strictly a database where the transcripts for all the trials have been processed into records in the database and indexed so that they may be searched for words using the database itself.

• Directories

  This is a Flash interface for the directory of ICTY transcripts as provided by this site. If you do not see a list of trials below or otherwise have evidence that Flash is not supported by your browser, follow this link, Flashless ICTY Transcripts index page to the old, original home page. To use the below interface, just click once on the control to gain focus and then click on one of the trials and folders will show with years leading to days that link to the page for that day. Witnesses are also listed for that trial, if there were any found for this database, and these can be clicked to show all the trial appearances and dates for that witness.

• The "Summary of Days for Trials" can be sorted for each column by clicking the column heading. Also, the dates are links to the transcripts for that day and trial. There are some bad links for the dates. Click the trial names to load the trial in the "Trial Dates and Witnesses" windows. If the window scrolls when you move the mouse over the page, just click the scroll bar and that should cure that.

• Reports

  • Witnesses Appearing at more Than One Trial

    This is a report displaying witnesses who appear at more than one trial and the trials where these witnesses testify. As of August 31, 2006, there are not links to the transcripts for these trials themselves.

  • Summary of Pages Redacted for ICTY Trials

    Much of the trial activity occurs under closed or private session and also much of it is censored out from the transcripts, also known as "redacted". This is a summary of the amount redacted transcripts for each trial

  • Transcript Pages Linked at the ICTY, But Returning "Page Not Found"

    For some reason, there is a small collection of transcript that are linked at the ICTY's site, but when you try to load them, they return the error "The Page Cannot be Found". If the site were my site, I would assume that even though a page was linked, the page either did not exist or was mislocated, or something was wrong with the link. The link to a page does not create the page. The page you see in your browser is an actual file that you load from somebody's computer to your browser when you click the link. The link should provide the exact location of the file on the remote computer for your browser.

• Errata

  There have been numerous complications and obstacles to processing many of these transcripts pages. The automated conversion from one type of HTML display to my more legible version depends on consistancy in the formating of the original transcripts. This does not always occur. Confronting these disparities is an ongoing job, but many pages may not be processed correctly and I certainly cannot proof over 4,700 pages of processed HTML. I have encountered a few mis-processed pages entirely through random examination.