If you search for results using the USMS Meet Result tracking, the results page for this service after searching has a notice where the USMS logo used to be:
"By mutual agreement with USMS
This service will terminate on December 31, 2007"
(attached below)
While it's certainly a clunky results interface (depending on how you search using it, certain results will be present in certain searches, and not in others), I would think it would be better than nothing. Does anyone know if there is a replacement in the works?
Patrick King
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Former Member
when the replacement is built, will the currently available results be imported over, or will we lose everything that is in the database currently???
We will certainly lose some of the historical results. When I was the Current Top Times administrator early on (2002-2003) not all the meet results were archived and CRG Web Services destroys the original files shortly after merging them into the database. A lot of those will be gone but some could possibly be retrieved from local archives (meet directors, Top Ten Chairs, the better local web sites such as North Texas that preserve and post those files). However, this would be a pretty tedious process and may not have very high priority.
For more recent data (2003-2005) I was better prepared and did the archiving. I have passed along those more recent meet files to the current database administrator, Jeanne Seidler, and we should be in pretty good shape from that point onward.
when the replacement is built, will the currently available results be imported over, or will we lose everything that is in the database currently???
We will certainly lose some of the historical results. When I was the Current Top Times administrator early on (2002-2003) not all the meet results were archived and CRG Web Services destroys the original files shortly after merging them into the database. A lot of those will be gone but some could possibly be retrieved from local archives (meet directors, Top Ten Chairs, the better local web sites such as North Texas that preserve and post those files). However, this would be a pretty tedious process and may not have very high priority.
For more recent data (2003-2005) I was better prepared and did the archiving. I have passed along those more recent meet files to the current database administrator, Jeanne Seidler, and we should be in pretty good shape from that point onward.
