The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

One Time Entertainment Licenses

The Entertainment Licensing Division issues one-time entertainment licenses for special events, venues without an annual entertainment license, and for annual entertainment licenses who do not have certain categories of entertainment on their annual license. These licenses are issued for a short…

Dataset

Publisher
Consumer Affairs and Licensing Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
17
Keywords
business, entertainment, events, license, licensing, permitting
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/one-time-entertainment-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.

FormatPreservationSizeDigestSource
CSVpreserved647925694807d3e83954c7fdda82ab87659b05d5d89d78daaae5d87501edd6981732ebesource

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.

ColumnTypeDescription
license_numtext
statustext
license_typetext
issuedtext
expirestext
dba_nametext
commentstext
location_commentstext
applicanttext
contacttext
managertext
addresstext
citytext
statetext
ziptext
gpsxtext
gpsytext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/4a1f964de463d87042a7f828936a9df0/one-time-entertainment-licenses-columns.json — 1371 bytes, SHA-256 4a1f964de463d870…, 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 One Time Entertainment Licenses, and under what license?

Consumer Affairs and Licensing 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.

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 One Time Entertainment Licenses 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 One Time Entertainment Licenses?

17 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 One Time Entertainment Licenses?

Yes, for 1 of 1 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 One Time Entertainment Licenses, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of One Time Entertainment Licenses 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). 3 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:one-time-entertainment-licenses
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/one-time-entertainment-licenses
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/one-time-entertainment-licenses.json
Version
2 · 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
one-time-entertainment-licenses
Attribution
City of Boston
Rights as stated
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#OperationDescriptionTool
1fetchretrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpointarchive-ingest 0.1.0
2normalizemapped the portal's catalog fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0
3externalize-column-dictionaryThe publisher's 17-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/4a1f964de463d87042a7f828936a9df0/one-time-entertainment-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