The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Open and Protected Data Policy

Following April 7, 2014 Executive Order from Mayor Walsh, an Open and Protected Data Policy was drafted to guide the City in defining, protecting, and ultimately making Open Data available and useful to the public. The policy provides working definitions for Open Data, along with information on…

Dataset

Publisher
Department of Innovation and Technology
Spatial coverage
all
Keywords
data, open data, policy
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/open-and-protected-data-policy

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
PDFreferenced756287de8fc651da2707560f8b0de1af715ff840dc19e50b89c8082ca454381a878647source

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:open-and-protected-data-policy
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/open-and-protected-data-policy
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/open-and-protected-data-policy.json
Version
1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source
City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence
Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved
2 September 2026
Source identifier
open-and-protected-data-policy
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 catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatimarchive-ingest 0.1.0