Just in time for the Hugo Awards … the Internet Speculative Fiction Database has landed at Freebase!

We’re big fans of the ISFDB.  Fan-created and maintained, it is widely considered one of the most authoritative sources about Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror literature available on the Internet.  It obsessively documents the literary careers of thousands of authors, including the series they’ve created, the titles they’ve written, and the awards they’ve won.  And, in great Open Data fashion, it’s available under a Creative Commons license.

And now the contents of the ISFDB are available in Freebase.  On our first load, we’ve focused exclusively on the book-length works within ISFDB: novels and short-story collections, nicely complementing the 100K books loaded by Toby back in January.

As always, we’ve taken great care to reconcile these new entries from ISFDB with items already in Freebase.  When we do this, we split our load into three groups: items that are clearly not in Freebase (new); items that clearly match to something already in Freebase (match); and items where we can’t make an automated decision given the available data (unclear).  We’ve already loaded items from the first two groups.  Items in the “unclear” group still need to be manually reviewed before they can be loaded.

• Authors: 9,212 new and 3,226 matched (67% coverage)
• Titles: 32,945 new and 12,900 matched (70% coverage)
• Editions: 88,697 new and 12,845 matched (87% coverage)
• Series: 5,035 new and 139 matched (96% coverage)

So you can enjoy Anathem, The Graveyard Book, Little Brother, Saturn’s Children and Zoe’s Tale, along with comprehensive views of the works of Cory Doctrow, lists of all editions of Coraline, or the publication history of Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle.

Coming soon — cover art, awards, and better reconciliation coverage.  Enjoy!