Municipal Lobbying

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Municipal Lobbying

The Lobbyist Registration and Regulation Ordinance aims: - to promote good governance and ensure transparency in government by requiring registration and disclosure of lobbying activities; - to create fairness and consistency by applying the sames rules to all persons engaged in lobbying…

Dataset

Publisher: City Clerk
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 21
Keywords: Lobbying, client, entity, influence, lobbyist, ordinance, registration, reporting, soliciting
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/municipal-lobbying

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	2869015	`9102b343f9f119cd110526121423f0150b287bbcc3a2f5e5676e94da9002bded`	source
CSV	preserved	29320	`85a3d401607cd3b7eedc32988be63f8f727fa5ccb24f119b63a82d8e4dfb8ea8`	source
PDF	preserved	398752	`1b3792a0ad256016c037e550180a902cadb9a5a43664d00b6926f3a0545efd72`	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
`CCL #`	text
`Category`	text
`Full Name`	text
`Add Date`	text
`Year`	text
`Quarter`	text
`Quarter Activity`	text
`Type`	text
`Contribution Date`	text
`Contribution Amount`	text
`Recipient Name`	text
`Incumbent/Candidate`	text
`Lobbyist/Client Name`	text
`Lobbyist/Client CCL`	text
`Subject Name`	text
`Subject Type`	text
`Support Oppose`	text
`Support Oppose Statement`	text
`Issue Description`	text
`Incurred or Paid`	text
`Amount`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/79ec2e4d3018dd094467fea28f1274a5/municipal-lobbying-columns.json — 1618 bytes, SHA-256 79ec2e4d3018dd09…, 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 Municipal Lobbying, and under what license?

City Clerk 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.