The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

BERDO Reporting (2019)

City of Boston Building Energy Reporting and Disclosure Ordinance (BERDO)

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
22
Keywords
boston, bostonmaps, building, energy, municipal, reporting, static
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/berdo-reporting-2019

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.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
ArcGIS GeoServices REST APIreferenced——source
CSVpreserved620789d7eb01104db2ff6de8f57f12a234915f6c0a91f60327e9936a90439d56478f41source
GeoJSONpreserved9559556a7f30d9a5cb0ac6605018c238b6c25b137faff4af564a1c297a5b7d8216907c9source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved2347407f18d123ea898e90bb906ef2cd61e8716a0fe923e4fc978c9a1e4d8bff5b97447source
SHPreferenced——source
ZIPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
OID_text
Property_Nametext
Reportedtext
Property_Typetext
Addresstext
Gross_Sq_Fttext
Site_EUItext
EnergyStar_Scoretext
EnergyStar_Certifiedtext
Property_Usestext
GHG_Emissionstext
GHG_Intensitytext
Site_Energy_Usestext
Water_Intensitytext
OnSite_Solartext
Owner_Submitted_Infotext
FIRST_EAA_2019text
FIRST_EAA_Statustext
Yeartext
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/8519be72cce008fd63a4debbb27858a1/berdo-reporting-2019-columns.json — 1667 bytes, SHA-256 8519be72cce008fd…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

Each answer is composed only from fields this record carries, and names the attestation for what it says. A question the record cannot answer from its own attested content is not asked here. Where a boundary is described as official it was promulgated by an authority with the power to draw it and is not amended by anything on the vernacular layer; where it is described as vernacular it is held by attestation alone and amends no official boundary.

Who publishes BERDO Reporting (2019), and under what license?

Boston Maps 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does BERDO Reporting (2019) cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is BERDO Reporting (2019)?

22 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of BERDO Reporting (2019)?

Yes, for 3 of 9 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for BERDO Reporting (2019), and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of BERDO Reporting (2019) from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:berdo-reporting-2019
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/berdo-reporting-2019
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/berdo-reporting-2019.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
berdo-reporting-2019
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 22-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/8519be72cce008fd63a4debbb27858a1/berdo-reporting-2019-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0