Dataset
Community Centers
<div>Boston community center locations (BCYF), point data. Updated in May 2018.</div><div>https://www.boston.gov/community-centers</div>
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Maps
- Spatial coverage
- Boston, Massachusetts
- Fields
- 10
- Keywords
- bcyf, boston, centers, community
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/community-centers
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArcGIS GeoServices REST API | referenced | — | — | source |
| CSV | referenced | 6396 | 3831c5ed7a89339f86586cefe3f46174637d504cfc46e0641f7d4e1bda66975c | source |
| GeoJSON | referenced | 13642 | aefef6e55544cef17d7c438620abb78b9553c18d90345aab37bca04c133308b2 | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| KML | referenced | 6787 | 3b4f402e3f9ed15321899306607d2a5c120b542b0800ccd88fafcadc4bb32231 | source |
| SHP | referenced | — | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|
OBJECTID_1 | text | |
SITE | text | |
PHONE | text | |
FAX | text | |
STREET | text | |
NEIGH | text | |
ZIP | text | |
shape_wkt | text | |
POINT_X | text | |
POINT_Y | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:community-centers
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/community-centers
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/community-centers.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
- community-centers
- 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 |