# 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?

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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.

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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  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/10/08/feature-loremasters",
      "note": "work/gi_chee.html Game Informer Q&A with Leland Chee (2009); work/sw_chee.html starwars.com Introducing Leland Chee (2012)"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://www.starwars.com/news/introducing-leland-chee",
      "note": "work/gi_chee.html Game Informer Q&A with Leland Chee (2009); work/sw_chee.html starwars.com Introducing Leland Chee (2012)"
    }
  ]
}
```

Evidence claims:
- [sourced_fact] 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. · locator: work/gi_chee.html Game Informer Q&A with Leland Chee (2009); work/sw_chee.html starwars.com Introducing Leland Chee (2012) · source: https://gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2009/10/08/feature-loremasters

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