Dataset
Annual Entertainment Licenses
The Entertainment Licensing Division for the City of Boston enforces entertainment license law under MGL Chapter 140 Section 177A-183A which includes concert, dance exhibition, automatic amusement devices (pin ball or video games), cabaret, and public shows consisting of dancing by patrons,…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Consumer Affairs and Licensing Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 17
- Keywords
- amusement, concerts, dance, entertainment, licenses, permits, public shows, venues
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/entertainment-licenses-legacy
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 | 522545 | 38a9e989ea4d89970fe9bf7f4fb9f7b6f2f7ed1499ec03cc4c0e5c6a7e2720dc | source |
| CSV | referenced | 2483582 | 19c8e88e4eabf486e43069f813059898570d8cd507c866f28e2b30cc3574b47c | source |
| referenced | 17430 | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|
license_num | text | |
status | text | |
license_type | text | |
issued | timestamp | |
expires | timestamp | |
business_name | text | |
dba_name | text | |
comments | text | |
location_comments | text | |
applicant | text | |
manager | text | |
address | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zip | numeric | |
gpsx | numeric | |
gpsy | numeric |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:entertainment-licenses-legacy
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/entertainment-licenses-legacy
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/entertainment-licenses-legacy.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
- entertainment-licenses-legacy
- 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 |