Data Mob Project
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Flash Data Mob Projects are community activities focused on generating new data in Freebase. The idea has been to take 5-10 minutes (or more, if you’ve got the
inclination) and fill in some missing data in Freebase. The idea is for
a bunch of...
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| TV Spinoffs |
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TV Program |
I found this really cool page on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_television_spin-offsThis is a whole list of all the shows that have spun off of other shows.Many
people have been painstakingly editing this page to keep this accurate...
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| And the Academy Award Goes To... |
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Add as many (correct!) actors and actresses as you can to the movies in
this topic. This means we need to fill out actors, directors,
producers, movie studios...you name it.You can start from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences ...
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| The Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon |
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Film actor |
Add anyone and anything connected up to six degrees away from Kevin Bacon.
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| Famous Quotations |
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Quotation |
Add your favorite quotations!
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| Hometown Pride |
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City/Town |
For those of you who've filled out your freebase profile, and entered your home town, you've probably noticed that (at least in the US) Freebase has an amazing breadth of location data - thanks in part to Wikipedia and some free data from the US...
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| The company you keep |
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Company |
Is the company you work for in Freebase? How about the founders or the staff? Imagine a timeline or network diagram of people and their connections to companies -- the more data we have, the more interesting these kinds of visualizations can become....
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| Mexico City mob project | Dated location | Mexico postal code |
A Mob Project to fill in all the data for Mexico City and the Mexican federal district.
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| Colonia | |||||
| Mexican federal district borough | |||||
| Mexican federal district | |||||
| Now that's a painless campaign contribution |
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Politician |
Want a novel way to contribute to your favorite presidential
candidate's campaign? How about making sure that their topic on
Freebase has all the facts? You can get started here...US Presidential Democratic Candidates Barack Obama Hillary Clinton...
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| BRAAAAIIIIINNS |
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Film |
Join the army of the undead as we fill in data about zombies.More than just shambling, brain-eating monsters, zombies are also a Film Genre, Book Subject, and a type of character in Magic: The Gathering. Not to mention all the computer games, ...
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| Fictional Universe | |||||
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| Caffeine fix |
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Restaurant |
Tell us where you find your daily caffeine fix. We want to know about your local, preferably independent coffee shops.
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| Fictional things |
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Roy Batty | Fictional Setting |
Freebase has a large set of people, organizations and locations from fictional works. Find or create your favorites and fill them out. Better, fill them all out for a single fictional work, such as a film or book. Be sure to add your new...
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| Springfield Nuclear Power Plant | Fictional Character | ||||
| Kryptonite | Fictional Object | ||||
| Unicorn | Organization in fiction | ||||
| Jackalope | Material in fiction | ||||
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| Board games |
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Monopoly | Game |
Revive memories of your childhood by finding and detailing your favorite board games. Use the wikipedia article and external sources to add the publisher, designer, the year of release and derivative games. Be sure to add it to the list...
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| Panzer Leader | |||||
| Sorry! | |||||
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| School days |
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Balwyn Primary School | School |
Here's one for all of us. Is your school listed in Freebase? Chances are your university is here, and maybe your secondary school to, but the lower we get down the educational tree and the further we get from the USA the less detail we...
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| Vermont Primary School | Educational Institution | ||||
| Charles Lindbergh Middle School | College/University | ||||
| Madison Elementary School | |||||
| Harte Elementary School | |||||
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| Shhhhh! The library data mob. |
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Bibliotheca Alexandrina | Public Library System |
One of the newest domains in the Freebase Commons is Library. Is your local public library listed? There are over 9,000 already but we're not sure we've got branch libraries and our coverage outside of the US is weak. Please help...
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| State Library of Victoria | Public Library | ||||
| State Library of New South Wales | Academic Library | ||||
| Yarra Melbourne Regional Library | National Library | ||||
| Santa Clara Public Library System | |||||
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| My Hero |
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Mother Teresa | Fictional Character |
Who's your hero? Whether it's Winston Churchill or Wonder Woman, look it up in Freebase then go fill in as much information as you can. This week we're aiming for depth, not breadth; the goal is to try and really fill in some topics as...
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| José Rizal | Person | ||||
| Barack Obama | |||||
| Mahatma Gandhi | |||||
| Osamu Tezuka | |||||
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| Shopping Centers |
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The Shops at Ithaca Mall | Shopping center |
There are two way to approach this. The first is to load in a heap of shopping centres from your geographical area. Take a look at the links on the right for some starting points, or add a link if you can find a list of malls near you. To...
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| Burlington Mall | |||||
| Ridgedale Center | |||||
| Bay Street | |||||
| Stanford Shopping Center | |||||
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| Ethnicity |
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Acadian | Ethnicity |
What is ethnicity anyway? Wikipedia has an enormous list of ethnicities (see links on right). These are in Freebase already but aren't necessarily typed as "ethnicity". Go find one you're interested, hit "Add Type...
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| Tibetan people | |||||
| Afro-Trinidadian people | |||||
| Javanese | |||||
| Native Americans in the United States | |||||
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| Mapping the World |
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Area 51 |
One of the great new features in this week’s release is the inclusion of Google maps on pages for topics that have a known geolocation. Your mission this week, if you choose to accept it, is to go check out a handful of your favourite places ...
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| Who wrote what? |
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Mick Brown | Author |
Freebase has almost 14,000 authors and 28,000 written works. However, there are lots of authors and books/poems/plays that aren't in Freebase, and what's there isn't always matched up. Our data team has a large ISBN database that they want to...
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| James Gleick | Written Work | ||||
| Guy Debord | Book | ||||
| Neil Gaiman | |||||
| Melvin Konner | |||||
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| Your influences |
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Kirrily Robert | Influence Node |
Our Influence domain, originally created by Mike Love, is one of the most fascinating and most often used by application developers. This week, we're going to expand the realm of influence. Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to type...
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| Marielle Hsu | |||||
| Peter Burns | |||||
| Stephanie A Fox | |||||
| Brian Karlak | |||||
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| Motorcycles |
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SHORT BUS ONE | Motorcycle model |
Do you ride a motorcycle? Do you know someone who does? This week's data mob is a first for Freebase: we're focussing on a user-created domain. The Motorcycle domain, created by spatialed, contains information about motorcycles,...
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| Motorcycle manufacturer | |||||
| Privately owned motorcycle | |||||
| Motorcycle blog entry | |||||
| Motorcycle body style | |||||
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| Places of Worship |
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Gurdwara | Place of worship |
There are places of worship for all kinds of religions, all over the world. We want them in Freebase!Start with one of the lists on the right, choosing whatever religion or type of place of worship takes your fancy. ...
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| Cathedral | |||||
| Chapel | |||||
| Roman temple | |||||
| Mosque | |||||
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| Least Developed Countries |
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Vanuatu |
The list of countries linked on the right are the 50 least developed nations in the world.For this data mob, please choose one such country and fill in as much information about it as you can...
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| Zimbabwe | |||||
| Mauritania | |||||
| Nepal | |||||
| Afghanistan | |||||
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| Bedtime stories |
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Diary of a Wombat | Literary Series |
Please add your favourite children's books! You can add those you enjoyed yourself as a child, or those your kids enjoy now.Go to "Book" and click "Add new Book" to add one, then go fill out the author,...
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| The Famous Five | Fictional Universe | ||||
| Charlie and the Chocolate Factory | Book | ||||
| Stig of the Dump | Author | ||||
| The Twits | |||||
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| Olympic Games: where and when? |
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2008 Summer Olympics | Olympic games |
We've recently created an Olympics domain in the Freebase commons, in preparation for this year's Beijing Olympic Games. Between now and then we'll be having a few Olympics data mobs, so this is the first one....
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| 2004 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 2000 Summer Olympics | |||||
| 2002 Winter Olympics | |||||
| 1996 Summer Olympics | |||||
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| Olympic Games: athletes by country |
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Australia | Olympic participating country |
Last week we looked at where and when the Olympics happened for each olympiad since 1896. This week, let's look at athletes.Here's a view of Olympic Participating Countries and their athletes. Your task is to find one with no athletes...
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