Dataset
Checkbook Explorer
The Checkbook Explorer web application provides current financial information about the City of Boston's expenditures, allowing users to explore how City funds are spent. Data is updated regularly, though the timing may vary based on internal review and approval processes. This data is published,…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Department of Innovation and Technology
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 16
- Keywords
- budget, contract, expenditures, finance, vendor
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/checkbook-explorer
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.
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| CSV | referenced | 15931711 | 0e7ac8315665345284bd8cd11fe381148e9065d2562c96e68aa7e37a0c9dd083 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 18241723 | fde51fec671dc0e7269abd0d0b04d4832a29d438fce4d621ef0eb1c56ae634b1 | source |
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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 |
|---|---|---|
Voucher | text | |
Voucher Line | text | |
Distribution Line | text | |
Entered | text | |
Month(Number) | text | |
Month | text | |
Fiscal Month | text | |
Fiscal Year | text | |
Year | text | |
Vendor Name | text | |
Account | text | |
Account Descr | text | |
Dept | text | |
Dept Name | text | |
6 Digit Org Name | text | |
Monetary Amount | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:checkbook-explorer
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/checkbook-explorer
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/checkbook-explorer.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
- checkbook-explorer
- 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 |