Yes, and I strongly support their effort to do so.
Re:How Google Book Search Got Lost
by walterbell on Thursday April 13, 2017 @10:04AM
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Thanks, didn't realize this was already far along:
As precedent, Google did contribute Freebase to Wikidata, even though it was the starting point for their proprietary Knowledge Graph (Facebook has a competing graph), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebase