Historic Burying Grounds Initiative Grave Marker Search

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Historic Burying Grounds Initiative Grave Marker Search

This is a dataset showing gravestone locations and information that are matched to surveys done of each of Boston Parks and Recreation Department (BPRD)’s Historic Burying Grounds. The Historic Burying Ground Initiative (HBGI) manages sixteen different City-owned burying grounds located in Boston…

Dataset

Publisher: Parks and Recreation
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 7
Keywords: Bennington Street, Boston, Bunker Hill, Copps Hill, Historic, Kings Chapel, burying ground, burying grounds, cemeteries, cemetery, granary, gravesites, graveyards, historic burying ground, monument, monuments, park, parks
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search

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	1121821	`5b41f851597602a884c10c39ee3b0479f80f24703305ee0ecae90332d8e0e644`	source
XLSX	preserved	56305	`2017910ca70cd377d585bebc60c88e3b39a10000a0937e6cb7e1c0d6043eddb0`	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
`burial_last_name`	text
`burial_first_name`	text
`year_of_death`	text
`month_of_year`	text
`day_of_month`	text
`location_number`	text
`cemetery_name`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/b01b7a5600279c23199de1897ad92f39/historic-burying-grounds-initiative-grave-marker-search-columns.json — 965 bytes, SHA-256 b01b7a5600279c23…, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.

Questions this record answers

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Who publishes Historic Burying Grounds Initiative Grave Marker Search, and under what license?

Parks and Recreation 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.