ZygAI/zygai_lintel98_companies_ABC

🏢 ZygAI – Lintel Info ‘98: Lithuanian Companies Dataset (ABC)

ZygAI Lintel ‘98 Companies is a fully digitized, structured dataset based on the Lithuanian business information catalog “Lintel Info ‘98 – Įmonių anketiniai duomenys”.
Originally published in 1998, this dataset preserves and structures detailed records of Lithuanian IT, technology, and service companies that operated during the early post-Soviet economic period.

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📘 Overview

This dataset contains structured information extracted from the Lintel Info ‘98 printed volume — one of the first Lithuanian-wide business catalogs after the country’s independence.
Each record represents a company with contact, activity, and management details, providing a snapshot of Lithuania’s corporate and technological ecosystem in the late 1990s.

The dataset was manually digitized, cleaned, validated, and merged as part of the ZygAI Research archival initiative.

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🧩 Structure (Markdown Schema)

Field	Type	Description
company	string	Company name
city	string	City where the company is based
address	string	Full postal address
phone	string	Phone number(s)
fax	string	Fax number(s)
email	string	Email address
website	string	Company website (if existed in 1998)
executives	string	Company directors or managers
founded	string	Founding year
employees	string	Number of employees
activity	string	Company activity description (LT)
activity_en	string	Company activity description (EN)
summary	string	Short summary (LT)
summary_en	string	Short summary (EN)
partners	string	Partnerships, affiliations, cooperations
page_category	string	Category from the original Lintel book section
source	string	Always: Lintel Info '98 – Įmonių anketiniai duomenys

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📊 Dataset Statistics

Metric	Value
Total entries	351
Dataset size	~229 KB
Fields per entry	17
Source format	JSON (auto-converted to Parquet)
Language	Lithuanian (some EN fields)
Time period	1998
License	MIT

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🕰️ Historical Context

The Lintel Info ‘98 catalog was one of the earliest post-1990 business directories in Lithuania, capturing the country’s rapid transition from a state-run economy to a modern private enterprise ecosystem.
Many of the listed companies were pioneers in IT, telecom, security systems, office equipment, and early internet infrastructure.

This dataset preserves that historic transformation in a digital, research-friendly format.

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🧠 Applications

• Lithuanian business & IT ecosystem history research
• AI / LLM training for Lithuanian-language business tasks
• RAG systems and search tools
• Corporate network analysis, classification, or reconstruction
• Archival & cultural heritage preservation
• Economic development visualization (1990–2000)

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🧩 Related ZygAI Datasets

• 🇱🇹 Soviet Lithuania Archives: https://huggingface.co/ZygAI
• 📚 Lithuanian historical and cultural datasets
• 🏛️ Multi-era Lithuanian digital heritage collections

Together, these datasets form the ZygAI Lithuanian Historical Data Archive — the first large-scale open data library dedicated to Lithuania’s modern history.

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🧾 Source

Lintel Info ‘98 – Įmonių anketiniai duomenys
Published in 1998 by Lintel (Vilnius, Lithuania).
Digitized and structured by ZygAI Research, 2025.

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⚖️ License

Released under the MIT License.
Free for research, educational, archival, and commercial use.

📌 Example Entry

{
  "company": "FIMA, UAB",
  "city": "Vilnius",
  "address": "A. Goštauto g. 11, 2600 Vilnius",
  "phone": "(8*22) 22 57 70",
  "fax": "(8*22) 22 57 70",
  "email": "",
  "website": "",
  "executives": "",
  "founded": "",
  "employees": "",
  "activity": "Saugumo, komunikacijos ir IT sistemų projektavimas ir priežiūra.",
  "activity_en": "Security, communication and IT systems engineering and maintenance.",
  "summary": "",
  "summary_en": "",
  "partners": "",
  "page_category": "IT, Communication Systems",
  "source": "Lintel Info '98 – Įmonių anketiniai duomenys"
}