{
 "profile": "data-package",
 "name": "values-explorer",
 "title": "Values explorer: what technology companies say they value",
 "version": "2026.10",
 "created": "2026-10-06",
 "homepage": "https://values.stach.uk/data/",
 "description": "Every value published by the technology companies checked, as worded on each company's own website, with how it was obtained and the concept it was coded to. Companies that publish no list are included, so the rate of publishing can be measured.",
 "licenses": [
  {
   "name": "CC-BY-4.0",
   "title": "Creative Commons Attribution 4.0",
   "path": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
   "scope": "CC BY 4.0 covers the selection of companies, the structure, the concept coding and the metadata. The value wordings are short quotations of the companies' own public pages; they remain the companies', each row links to its source, and the licence makes no claim over them."
  }
 ],
 "contributors": [
  {
   "title": "Justin Stach",
   "role": "author",
   "path": "https://orcid.org/0009-0008-6915-9649"
  }
 ],
 "citation": "Stach, J. (2026). Values explorer: what technology companies say they value (release 2026.10) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23189168. CC BY 4.0.",
 "schema_version": "1",
 "resources": [
  {
   "name": "companies-csv",
   "path": "companies.csv",
   "format": "csv",
   "mediatype": "text/csv",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "slug",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the company in this dataset"
     },
     {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Company name"
     },
     {
      "name": "website",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The company's own website"
     },
     {
      "name": "wikidata",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wikidata item ID, where the metadata came from Wikidata"
     },
     {
      "name": "publishes_list",
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the company publishes a list of values"
     },
     {
      "name": "values_url",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The page the values were read from"
     },
     {
      "name": "founded",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Year the business was founded, by the rules in the methodology"
     },
     {
      "name": "size_band",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Headcount band: 1-50, 51-500, 501-5000 or 5001+"
     },
     {
      "name": "frame",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The sampling list that brought the company into the dataset"
     },
     {
      "name": "source",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "corpus, submitted or manual: how the row was added"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_checked",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the company's page was last read"
     },
     {
      "name": "obtained",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the values were obtained; see the obtained values in the methodology"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "companies-json",
   "path": "companies.json",
   "format": "json",
   "mediatype": "application/json",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "slug",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the company in this dataset"
     },
     {
      "name": "name",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Company name"
     },
     {
      "name": "website",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The company's own website"
     },
     {
      "name": "wikidata",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wikidata item ID, where the metadata came from Wikidata"
     },
     {
      "name": "publishes_list",
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Whether the company publishes a list of values"
     },
     {
      "name": "values_url",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The page the values were read from"
     },
     {
      "name": "founded",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Year the business was founded, by the rules in the methodology"
     },
     {
      "name": "size_band",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Headcount band: 1-50, 51-500, 501-5000 or 5001+"
     },
     {
      "name": "frame",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The sampling list that brought the company into the dataset"
     },
     {
      "name": "source",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "corpus, submitted or manual: how the row was added"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_checked",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the company's page was last read"
     },
     {
      "name": "obtained",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the values were obtained; see the obtained values in the methodology"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "values-csv",
   "path": "values.csv",
   "format": "csv",
   "mediatype": "text/csv",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "company",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Company slug, joins to companies.slug"
     },
     {
      "name": "wording",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The value as the company published it"
     },
     {
      "name": "concept",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Concept key, joins to concepts.key; empty when uncoded"
     },
     {
      "name": "coded_by",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "rule, hand, or uncoded"
     },
     {
      "name": "obtained",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the value was obtained"
     },
     {
      "name": "source_url",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The page the value was read from"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_read",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When that page was read"
     },
     {
      "name": "snapshot",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wayback Machine copy of the page, where one exists"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_archived",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the snapshot was taken"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "values-json",
   "path": "values.json",
   "format": "json",
   "mediatype": "application/json",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "company",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Company slug, joins to companies.slug"
     },
     {
      "name": "wording",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The value as the company published it"
     },
     {
      "name": "concept",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Concept key, joins to concepts.key; empty when uncoded"
     },
     {
      "name": "coded_by",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "rule, hand, or uncoded"
     },
     {
      "name": "obtained",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "How the value was obtained"
     },
     {
      "name": "source_url",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The page the value was read from"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_read",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When that page was read"
     },
     {
      "name": "snapshot",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Wayback Machine copy of the page, where one exists"
     },
     {
      "name": "date_archived",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the snapshot was taken"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "concepts-csv",
   "path": "concepts.csv",
   "format": "csv",
   "mediatype": "text/csv",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "key",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the concept"
     },
     {
      "name": "label",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Display name"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies with at least one value coded to it"
     },
     {
      "name": "values",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values coded to it"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "concepts-json",
   "path": "concepts.json",
   "format": "json",
   "mediatype": "application/json",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "key",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Stable identifier for the concept"
     },
     {
      "name": "label",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Display name"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies with at least one value coded to it"
     },
     {
      "name": "values",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values coded to it"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "releases-csv",
   "path": "releases.csv",
   "format": "csv",
   "mediatype": "text/csv",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "version",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Release identifier, year.month"
     },
     {
      "name": "date",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the release was cut"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies_checked",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies in the release, with or without a list"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies_publishing",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies that publish a list"
     },
     {
      "name": "values",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values in the release"
     },
     {
      "name": "uncoded",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values that match no concept"
     },
     {
      "name": "notes",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What changed since the previous release"
     }
    ]
   }
  },
  {
   "name": "releases-json",
   "path": "releases.json",
   "format": "json",
   "mediatype": "application/json",
   "encoding": "utf-8",
   "schema": {
    "fields": [
     {
      "name": "version",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Release identifier, year.month"
     },
     {
      "name": "date",
      "type": "date",
      "description": "When the release was cut"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies_checked",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies in the release, with or without a list"
     },
     {
      "name": "companies_publishing",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Companies that publish a list"
     },
     {
      "name": "values",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values in the release"
     },
     {
      "name": "uncoded",
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Values that match no concept"
     },
     {
      "name": "notes",
      "type": "string",
      "description": "What changed since the previous release"
     }
    ]
   }
  }
 ],
 "id": "https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23189168"
}