Public Works Violations

The Boston Archive

Dataset

Public Works Violations

Citations issued by the Public Works Department's Code Enforcement Division. Looking for Building and Property violations? Check out this dataset: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/building-and-property-violations1

Dataset

Publisher: Public Works Department
Spatial coverage: all
Fields: 23
Keywords: citations, code enforcement, dumping, litter, permits, sidewalk, snow, trash, violations, waste
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/public-works-violations

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	unavailable	—	`—`	source
XLSX	preserved	11676	`3463dc0b5ed3cb92ffcd6de47f567de7468d48e81d113c783c6a352e3ad402b9`	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
`case_no`	text
`ticket_no`	text
`status_dttm`	text
`status`	text
`code`	text
`value`	text
`description`	text
`violation_stno`	text
`violation_sthigh`	text
`violation_street`	text
`violation_suffix`	text
`violation_city`	text
`violation_state`	text
`violation_zip`	text
`ward`	text
`contact_addr1`	text
`contact_addr2`	text
`contact_city`	text
`contact_state`	text
`contact_zip`	text
`sam_id`	text
`latitude`	text
`longitude`	text

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/9ea5ffd79d9cdbd42336807750cffe36/public-works-violations-columns.json — 1708 bytes, SHA-256 9ea5ffd79d9cdbd4…, 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 Violations, 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.