Building and Property Violations

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Building and Property Violations

Violations on Boston buildings or properties issued by inspectors from the Building and Structures Division of the Inspectional Services Department. Note: `property_id` is equivalent to `sam_id`. Looking for Public Works violations? Check out this dataset:…

Dataset

Publisher: Inspectional Services Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 24
Keywords: building, buildings, code, inspectional services, inspections, permit, permits, properties, property, safety, structures
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/building-and-property-violations1

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	4087188	`0be3893e62e3ba74be48f59ea32eff287df7dac92f1c017144027b644dae51e6`	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
`case_no`	text
`ap_case_defn_key`	text
`status_dttm`	text
`status`	text
`code`	text
`value`	text
`description`	text
`violation_stno`	text
`violation_sthigh`	text
`violation_street`	text
`violation_suffix`	text
`violation_city`	text
`violation_state`	text
`violation_zip`	text
`ward`	text
`contact_addr1`	text
`contact_addr2`	text
`contact_city`	text
`contact_state`	text
`contact_zip`	text
`sam_id`	text
`latitude`	text
`longitude`	text
`location`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/94b9784b3707bc83717aff18ef89aad5/building-and-property-violations1-columns.json — 1804 bytes, SHA-256 94b9784b3707bc83…, 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 Building and Property Violations, 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.