Licensing Board Licenses

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Licensing Board Licenses

The Licensing Board issues a variety of licenses under MGL Chapter 138 and Chapter 140 including Billiards, Bowling, Common Victualler (Food Service), Alcoholic Beverages, Innholder, and Dormitories/Lodging houses. This dataset lists all licenses that are currently active. This dataset does not…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Licensing Board
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 26
Keywords: alcohol, billiards, bowling, business, business and licensing, clubs, common victualler, food, inns, licenses, licensing board, liquor, lodging house, nightclubs, restaurant, restaurants
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/licensing-board-licenses

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	1981932	`cd83c205c9ae20eee4d4d1923c2b00abada98388769bf962e0a86fa6a83ce9c2`	source
XLSX	preserved	6316	`1dc27ddd6e203d021c6abc5663c1ebe7685b3f8c259eced42310b30e8388ed07`	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
`historicallicensenum`	text
`status`	text
`license_category`	text
`license_type`	text
`issued`	text
`expires`	text
`business_name`	text
`dba_name`	text
`comments`	text
`location_comments`	text
`opening`	text
`closing`	text
`patronsout`	text
`capacity`	text
`descpremadd`	text
`applicant`	text
`manager`	text
`day_phone`	text
`evening_phone`	text
`address`	text
`city`	text
`state`	text
`zip`	text
`gpsx`	text
`gpsy`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/7c3b35c110f61d1a9428ce6f90ee7b7f/licensing-board-licenses-columns.json — 1825 bytes, SHA-256 7c3b35c110f61d1a…, 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 Licensing Board Licenses, and under what license?

Boston Licensing Board 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.