Active Food Establishment Licenses

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Active Food Establishment Licenses

The Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services (ISD) creates and enforces food safety codes to protect public health. All businesses which prepare and sell food to the public must possess a food service permit. In order to qualify for a permit, at least one full time employee must…

Dataset

Publisher: Inspectional Services Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 14
Keywords: business, businesses, food, food safety, inspections, licenses, licensing, permits, restaurants, sanitation
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/active-food-establishment-licenses

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	preserved	535969	`d11b43dcb23f3918240f9a4e9a75d2c251b1dc5237fbb28d01b10b1b4efd35b3`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`businessname`	text
`dbaname`	text
`address`	text
`city`	text
`state`	text
`zip`	text
`licstatus`	text
`licensecat`	text
`descript`	text
`license_add_dt_tm`	text
`dayphn_cleaned`	text
`property_id`	text
`latitude`	text
`longitude`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/01d6e20de2e38be854d609ec8b334657/active-food-establishment-licenses-columns.json — 1241 bytes, SHA-256 01d6e20de2e38be8…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

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Who publishes Active Food Establishment Licenses, and under what license?

Inspectional Services Department publishes it. The archive accessioned it under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain), and holds the publisher's own column dictionary verbatim rather than reworded into the archive's vocabulary — how a publisher names a column is evidence about the publisher.