Dataset
Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol)
The Licensing Board for the City of Boston enforces alcohol license law under Section 12, Section 15, and Section 19 of Chapter 138 of the Massachusetts General Laws. Alcohol licenses are issued by the City of Boston Licensing Board and approved by the Massachusetts Alcohol Beverage Control…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Licensing Board
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 24
- Keywords
- alcohol, licensing board, liquor licenses
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/liquor-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 | 679954 | 8a8b821da6091295c15ba05088f9dc541328b9bdf0a9ab538b4b986412b1dce7 | source |
| preserved | 17223 | d56d22dd17b8af31a373972ebaec4bd50d12852d6942018432ab1b61042bf3cd | 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_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 | |
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/a9d500fba211599ee1f56dcf959a53f4/liquor-licenses-columns.json — 1699 bytes, SHA-256 a9d500fba211599e…, 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 Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol), 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.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
What does Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol) cover?
In space, all.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
How large is Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol)?
24 columns, as the publisher's own catalog reports them.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
Can the archive hand back the bytes of Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol)?
Yes, for 2 of 2 distributions. Each preserved artifact is served at its own address with the digest recorded at retrieval emitted in an x-archive-sha256 header, and is handed over as an attachment: preserved material is evidence, not content, and is never rendered on this origin.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
What does the archive hold for Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol), and under what license?
The Boston Archive holds this record of Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol) from City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public domain). 4 recorded transforms stand between the retrieved bytes and this record. Attribution is due to City of Boston.
Attested by: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston), retrieved 2 September 2026, under Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0.
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:liquor-licenses
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/liquor-licenses
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/liquor-licenses.json
- Version
- 3 · last changed 13 September 2026
Provenance
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- License
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- liquor-licenses
- 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 catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 3 | externalize-column-dictionary | The publisher's 24-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/a9d500fba211599ee1f56dcf959a53f4/liquor-licenses-columns.json, served verbatim with its own digest. The record's stored field schema is unchanged; the graph now addresses it instead of carrying it. | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 4 | merge | carried the provenance chain of /dataset/liquor-licenses-2, a second record of this dataset made by a later run, and withdrew that record as a tombstone naming this one | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
Provenance carried from merged records
- Carried from
- /dataset/liquor-licenses-2
- Source
- City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
- License
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
- Retrieved
- 2 September 2026
- Source identifier
- liquor-licenses
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
- Carried
- 13 September 2026. /dataset/liquor-licenses and /dataset/liquor-licenses-2 are one dataset: the same source, the same dataset address and the same identifier, `liquor-licenses`, accessioned twice.