How does a franchise keeper run a continuity database (the Star Wars Holocron): what does it contain, who owns it, how is new material checked, and how are contradictions handled?

In a 2009 Game Informer Q&A, Leland Chee (Continuity Database Administrator, Lucas Licensing) describes the Holocron: an electronic encyclopedia of what has been developed and what is in development, created in 2000 to replace printed bibles, checked against by one licensing-side keeper, with producers given direct access. New material is entered as early as possible so creators can 'stake their claim'. Contradictions are handled by finding a plausible in-world explanation. Films and new TV series were not subject to prior approval by his group. Curator qualifications: All quotes verified. The candidate is a first-person practitioner account dated 2009 (pre-Disney canon reset), correctly scoped: licensing-side keeper, reconciliation of contradictions, films/TV outside prior approval. Add date caution: the 2009 account predates the 2014 Lucasfilm canon change; the process described is historical, not current practice (not re-checked). Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.

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