Food Establishment Inspections

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Food Establishment Inspections

The Health Division of the Department of Inspectional Services ensures that all food establishments in the City of Boston meet relevant sanitary codes and standards. Businesses that serve food are inspected at least once a year, and follow-up inspections are performed on high risk establishments.…

Dataset

Publisher: Inspectional Services Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 26
Keywords: food, health, inspections, legacy portal, restaurants, violations
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/food-establishment-inspections

Artifacts

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Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
CSV	unavailable	—	`—`	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
`businessname`	text
`dbaname`	text
`legalowner`	text
`namelast`	text
`namefirst`	text
`licenseno`	text
`issdttm`	text
`expdttm`	text
`licstatus`	text
`licensecat`	text
`descript`	text
`result`	text
`resultdttm`	text
`violation`	text
`viol_level`	text
`violdesc`	text
`violdttm`	text
`viol_status`	text
`status_date`	text
`comments`	text
`address`	text
`city`	text
`state`	text
`zip`	text
`property_id`	text
`location`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/fd902fa1ff7be5c93b1a8c5430866855/food-establishment-inspections-columns.json — 1836 bytes, SHA-256 fd902fa1ff7be5c9…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

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Who publishes Food Establishment Inspections, and under what license?

Inspectional Services 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.