The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

DND Managed City Property Inventory All

The Department of Neighborhood Development (DND) takes care of city owned property, including the maintanence of buildings and vacant land. This is a legacy dataset that provides information on these properties including the size, location, potential use, and more. Please see the current…

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
12
Keywords
development, housing, legacy portal, neighborhood, property
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all

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.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVpreserved5737990f92516b4665f618ca89993e534d10d15d4c828f4f7428879eb37537af40c108source
KMLpreserved1607275172981c2dd8a5a8a2ecb9e382a0fb4a202e3704c233d6a8455085b55b9a24a01source
KMZpreserved185037893c94a87607fe67b9a847505ac00902332f3072d46f8b78c1fadb5ca0b55f17source
ZIPreferenced——source
ZIPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
PARCELIDtext
STREETNAMEtext
the_geomtext
STREETNUMtext
STREETSUFtext
LOTSIZEtext
PROPTYPEtext
ZIPCODEtext
ADDRESStext
NEIGHtext
PUSEtext
EOItext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/3c568ac1322543daa76a79f2e29a9628/dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all-columns.json — 1110 bytes, SHA-256 3c568ac1322543da…, 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 DND Managed City Property Inventory All, and under what license?

Boston Maps 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.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does DND Managed City Property Inventory All cover?

In space, all.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

How large is DND Managed City Property Inventory All?

12 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Can the archive hand back the bytes of DND Managed City Property Inventory All?

Yes, for 3 of 5 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

What does the archive hold for DND Managed City Property Inventory All, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of DND Managed City Property Inventory All from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 3 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.

Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all.json
Version
2 · last changed 13 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
License
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 12-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/3c568ac1322543daa76a79f2e29a9628/dnd-managed-city-property-inventory-all-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it.archive-ingest 0.1.0