The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Public Works Active Work Zones

The Department of Public Works' Construction Inspection Unit (CIU) produces a daily report on all active utility and private sector construction projects taking place in the City, Monday through Friday. It also lists all resurfacing and reconstruction projects. Emergency work that is identified…

Dataset

Publisher
Public Works Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
22
Keywords
construction, paving, public works, streets, utility, work zones
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/public-works-active-work-zones

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
CSVpreserved201890d9840031d4b5cac1a2f14e6d1b6a5385316cf47df466e9893e05389faa9bca81source

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
Neighborhoodtext
Streettext
Address_1text
Address_2text
Intersectiontext
Fromtext
Totext
Permitteetext
Contractortext
Permittext
Project_Categorytext
Construction_Notestext
Work_Scheduletext
ExpirationDatetext
Estimated_Completion_Datetext
Roadway_Plates_In_Usetext
Sidewalk_Plates_In_Usetext
Statustext
Trench_Lengthtext
Contact_Numbertext
NumberOfWorkZonestext
Districttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/748e49203bb51136f043ae3ff07d39f4/public-works-active-work-zones-columns.json — 1706 bytes, SHA-256 748e49203bb51136…, 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 Public Works Active Work Zones, and under what license?

Public Works 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 Public Works Active Work Zones 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 Public Works Active Work Zones?

22 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 Public Works Active Work Zones?

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 Public Works Active Work Zones, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Public Works Active Work Zones 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:public-works-active-work-zones
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-works-active-work-zones
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/public-works-active-work-zones.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
public-works-active-work-zones
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 22-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/748e49203bb51136f043ae3ff07d39f4/public-works-active-work-zones-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