Olympedia

[Griff88 1,952]

1 minute ago, MantaRaymarc said:

How do you know about this matter?

 

[MantaRaymarc 132]

19 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

 

Let's hope that the results and athletes' profiles are preserved in the long run. Olympics have kept on archiving all sources of information in the past, making the preservation of data more difficult and obsolete.

[heywoodu 15,135]

26 minutes ago, Griff88 said:

 

Yep, easily the biggest shame in Olympic archival history

 

Olympedia is/was so amazing and the work all these people have put in it for so many years is incredible, only for the IOC to go and say "nah, thanks man" and leave it in the dust  

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

The IOC wanted ownership of the data collected by the group which means they didn't have that information in the first place. I hope the information and future ones aren't lost to time. It should be easier with the post-internet era.

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 hours ago, JoshMartini007 said:

The IOC wanted ownership of the data collected by the group which means they didn't have that information in the first place. I hope the information and future ones aren't lost to time. It should be easier with the post-internet era.

Of course always easy to say without being involved, but if selling such a database, I'd personally definitely have kept a copy on my computer  

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

39 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Of course always easy to say without being involved, but if selling such a database, I'd personally definitely have kept a copy on my computer  

I mean, they probably did (I would), but depending on the contract with the IOC, they may not be allowed to publish it elsewhere.

[heywoodu 15,135]

4 minutes ago, JoshMartini007 said:

I mean, they probably did (I would), but depending on the contract with the IOC, they may not be allowed to publish it elsewhere.

I'm the opposite of a legal expert, so: they can even just get everything, then go 'we wont renew the contract but you still cant use the info'? I get not being allowed to use it during the duration of the contract, but afterwards...?

 

Edited September 3 by heywoodu

[JoshMartini007 2,536]

6 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

I'm the opposite of a legal expert, so: they can even just get everything, then go 'we wont renew the contract but you still cant use the info'? I get not being allowed to use it during the duration of the contract, but afterwards...?

 

Depends on if they were "renting" the information or "buying" it. Again, without seeing the contract we don't know what they can and cannot do.

[MantaRaymarc 132]

17 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Of course always easy to say without being involved, but if selling such a database, I'd personally definitely have kept a copy on my computer  

Exactly. I personally save some data on Fandom.com for record keeping instead of losing them.

[Dragon 1,844]

I'll explain what happened.

In 2016 the IOC bought our data and asked us to continue updating it for a yearly fee.

At the end of 2023 they decided to end this contract because they wanted to pay the same money to fewer to us.

We refused because it was unfair that some of us would not get paid.

 

Since then (1 January 2024) the job of updating Olympedia relies completely on the IOC. It has not been successful.