Aton II utopia?
At this time, the associations again achievement medals for 2008 applications to the KNZB. For several medals have different criteria, such a place in the first 10 or 25 of the all-in rankings on the 25m track, or 10 of the youth rankings.
To see if you meet these conditions, you can obviously on the combined rankings in 2008 all-in look, but unfortunately appear here are some rankings do not fully or even to miss. Thus, in the 50m's only the first 10 and is shown for example 200vrij 1 junior girls nowhere to be found. This distance while still also in 2008 by the swim was a junior at the NJK. Questioning the KNZB yielded the response that only a limit to which distances can be achieved are recorded.
Upon further inquiry, there was a reaction of Aton Demuth, the man who has been working since 1964 in the union and those associated with lack of information was asked at times to keep going. This is primarily intended for national teams to put together.
In the beginning were only the times of circuit championships qualify for meeting deadlines for National Championships. These limits were obtained rankings and tracked by Aton. Naturally there were no computers in those days, so everything was done on paper, checking was done by temporary workers. Later also other competitions qualify for limits and thus increased the number of police reports steady process.
A while later volumes were added, followed by the Speedo-ages and the 50m songs.
What began as a hobby had grown into something hardly without automation to keep up. The 300 process police reports from the mid '80s, there are now over 2000 and became determining the rankings currently costs about 300uur summer, in winter about 250uur.
High time for automation and this was in 2006 with the arrival of Splash therefore announced by the KNZB. A request filed to the results also KNZB to send, thereby Aton II (the successor of Aton Demuth) test. And then there was silence ....
It seems that Aton II partly by cuts in KNZB become a utopia. But I Aton (Demuth) has no fixed point in the rankings for 20 years with the hand and so we zwemsite.nl of the project to revive. The aim of this project is a piece (too) to automate labor-intensive work, so for example rankings are always available for everyone. But there may also be considered to control limits achieved, progression, compared with the past, to set standards and much more. In the coming period will be examined to what it takes to Aton II to build and maintain. Details about this project can be found on the forum . There's also the opportunity to show what happened in Aten II should go out and indicate if you want to help.
A nice article on the processing of times you will also find an excerpt from the Magazine of the Circle Haaglanden, placed on the swimming chronicle site in early 2007.
