Goodbye, Freebase, Hello, Wikidata

Posted on 2015-03-08 by jimbelton

Sad news. Freebase, a community created database of metadata on many topics, is shutting down this year, as announced here by Google, who bought the company that ran the freebase website: https://plus.google.com/109936836907132434202/posts/bu3z2wVqcQc

Fortunately, it looks like the data will be moved to http://www.wikidata.org, the open structured data repository run by the Wiki Media Foundation, the same NPO that runs Wikipedia. Hopefully this means that the metadata that was available from Freebase will remain usable and free to use.

About jimbelton

I'm a software developer, and a writer of both fiction and non-fiction, and I blog about movies, books, and philosophy. My interest in religious philosophy and the search for the truth inspires much of my writing.
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