Annual Entertainment Licenses

The Boston Archive

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	preserved	522545	`38a9e989ea4d89970fe9bf7f4fb9f7b6f2f7ed1499ec03cc4c0e5c6a7e2720dc`	source
CSV	preserved	2483582	`19c8e88e4eabf486e43069f813059898570d8cd507c866f28e2b30cc3574b47c`	source
PDF	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

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/c634908fc684efb2108141eb5c755b4b/entertainment-licenses-legacy-columns.json — 1390 bytes, SHA-256 c634908fc684efb2…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes Annual Entertainment Licenses, and under what license?

Consumer Affairs and Licensing Department 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.