Freebase milestone
Last sunday Freebase reached a milestone: freely available data for over 10 million topics are now available. It has reached the milestone by reusing data from a load of other websites and initiatives. The following quote highlights this:
In October, we rounded out our TV domain by synchronizing with the excellent user-curated TV fan site TVRage.com. Combined with earlier data loads from thetvdb.com, we now have comprehensive coverage of nearly every TV show and episode created in the United States. It includes cast and credits, as well as links to key TV websites like tvguide.com and Hulu — nearly a million topics in all!
But the load that took us over the 10 million mark was the final load of editions from Open Library. Compromising 650,000 authors, almost 2 million books and 2.1 million book editions, this load pushed new boundaries in our data acquisition, curation, reconciliation and QA processes.
