BuildBPS: Facilities and Educational Data for Boston Public Schools

The Boston Archive

Dataset

BuildBPS: Facilities and Educational Data for Boston Public Schools

BuildBPS compiles vast amounts of data and allows for ongoing analyses that can be used to guide and inform decisions related to school building investments. An assessment team of architects and educational planners visited all of Boston Public Schools’ buildings, collecting and organizing…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Public Schools
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 251
Keywords: BuildBPS, Buildings, Facilities, Operations, Schools
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/buildbps-facilities-and-educational-data-for-boston-public-schools

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	175213	`28b6a2ad6cf8bf6b7217687c498d338aac5c21a3d6f248c6bf60d65018099cdc`	source
PDF	preserved	259872	`31a6a87934b061095a6dcdd376b5229569e29ad49fcbba34eb03f3cfcd63a0c1`	source
XLSX	preserved	171441	`27e0c607953a4aa1d5c000517e07c95f62347bd2569a64a254aedf75d486adcb`	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
`SMMA_Identifier`	text
`SMMA_Only_For_Map`	text
`BPS_School_Name`	text
`BPS_Historical_Name`	text
`SMMA_Abbreviated_Name`	text
`BPS_Address`	text
`BRA_Neighborhood`	text
`SMMA_latitude`	text
`SMMA_longitude`	text
`SMMA_Typology`	text
`SMMA_Educational_Program`	text
`BPS_Grades_Offered`	text
`BPS_Property_Status`	text
`BPS_Total_GSF`	text
`BPS_GSF`	text
`SMMA_Site_SF`	text
`SMMA_Site_Acres`	text
`BPS_Year_Founded`	text
`BPS_Year_Built`	text
`MSBA_Year_Reno`	text
`SMMA_Era`	text
`BPS_Plans`	text
`BPS_Principal`	text
`BPS_Open`	text
`BPS_Close`	text
`DOE_ID`	text
`DOE_Total`	text
`DOE_PK`	text
`DOE_K`	text
`DOE_1`	text
`DOE_2`	text
`DOE_3`	text
`DOE_4`	text
`DOE_5`	text
`DOE_6`	text
`DOE_7`	text
`DOE_8`	text
`DOE_9`	text
`DOE_10`	text
`DOE_11`	text
`DOE_12`	text
`DOE_SP`	text
`GSF / Student Value`	text
`BPS_KWH`	text
`BPS_Electric_Bill`	text
`BPS_Therms`	text
`BPS_Gas_Bill`	text
`BPS_Water_ft_cubic`	text

48 of 251 columns are shown here. The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/2951d06be8f7fa6c5579bfcb25135f96/buildbps-facilities-and-educational-data-for-boston-public-schools-columns.json — 17983 bytes, SHA-256 2951d06be8f7fa6c…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

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Who publishes BuildBPS: Facilities and Educational Data for Boston Public Schools, and under what license?

Boston Public Schools 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.