The Data Mob projects on our data page have been languishing a bit lately, so I thought I’d revive them — revive them, get it? — with a weekly data mob challenge.

Zombies invade an Apple Store, via Jayel Aheram under CC-BY
This week our subject is zombies. We’ll be populating data about zombie movies, zombie books, zombie video games, and of course a who’s who of zombies worldwide.
For example, see:
- The Zombie Survival Guide (book)
- Shaun of the Dead (movie)
- Beast Busters (arcade game)
- Marvel Zombies (comic)
So how are we going to fill this in? Check out such resources as:
- List of video games featuring zombies (Wikipedia)
- Characters from George A. Romero’s “Living Dead” series (Wikipedia)
- CC-licensed zombie pics (Flickr)
- The Definitive Zombie Movie List
At first I was going to create an army of undead data entry zombies and get them to peruse those lists and update Freebase accordingly, but I had a feeling that it might go horribly wrong. So instead we’re calling on the Freebase community to assist us with this vital task.
