Dataset
Central Library Electricity Usage
Electric power load at Boston Public Library's Central Branch (700 Boylston Street, in Copley Square) measured every five minutes.
Dataset
- Publisher
- Environment Department
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 3
- Keywords
- BPL, demand, electric, energy, interval, library, load, power
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/central-library-electricity-usage
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 | referenced | 13430266 | 3c03500c379031fdf1cdd8492fbaaccddd9734e2b079172005a382e3f115ec62 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
usage_datetime_start_eastern_time | text | |
usage_datetime_end_eastern_time | text | |
usage_kw | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:central-library-electricity-usage
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/central-library-electricity-usage
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/central-library-electricity-usage.json
- Version
- 1 · last changed 2 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- Licence
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- central-library-electricity-usage
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |