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.