Freebase Data Team member Al has just completed a huge load of TV episodes into Freebase. He says:
The first set of data from theTVDB.com — a creative-commons database for TV — has finished loading on our production site.
This gave us 150,000 new episodes and 9,000 new seasons across 3,000 series. Some examples:
If your favorite show doesn’t look complete, do let me know, but fear not! In the coming weeks I’m hoping to make these incremental improvements:
- improved coverage for popular shows via less conservative reconciliation
- episode screenshot images
- episode summaries
- actors and directors
- and regular syncs, to keep up with your favorite shows
All this data is, of course, available for apps and mashups via our hosted app development environment Acre, or using our REST API.
