The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Trash Collection Days

City of Boston Public Works (PWD) department trash collection days.

Dataset

Publisher
Boston Maps
Spatial coverage
Boston, Massachusetts
Fields
16
Keywords
boston, ckan, collection, days, public, trash, works
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/trash-collection-days

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
ArcGIS GeoServices REST APIreferenced——source
CSVpreserved7325a046123c02ee248007b1f4103ea6bd96daa31b832ab0079dab541d64c8695efasource
GeoJSONpreserved9268083bab14e2655c6967d15fa0e0aa03752c3a1f8a479718a0ac218078f67bfea298source
HTMLreferenced——source
KMLpreserved247779037a6536f053ea167679c734464a811ef5b07db768cdd728ceaae105bf837ab9source
SHPreferenced——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.

ColumnTypeDescription
OBJECTID_1text
OBJECTID_2text
RECOLLECTtext
PWDDISTtext
DTtext
TRASHDAYtext
CURR_SCHEDtext
FUTR_SCHEDtext
C_SCH_ENDtext
F_SCH_STRTtext
Shape_Lengtext
ORIG_FIDtext
Shape_Le_1text
Shape_Lengthtext
Shape_Areatext
shape_wkttext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/4fb369c549bc5ac8c3294593735ad009/trash-collection-days-columns.json — 1287 bytes, SHA-256 4fb369c549bc5ac8…, 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 Trash Collection Days, and under what license?

Boston Maps 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 Trash Collection Days cover?

In space, Boston, Massachusetts.

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 Trash Collection Days?

16 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 Trash Collection Days?

Yes, for 3 of 6 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 Trash Collection Days, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Trash Collection Days 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:trash-collection-days
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/trash-collection-days
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/trash-collection-days.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
trash-collection-days
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 16-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/4fb369c549bc5ac8c3294593735ad009/trash-collection-days-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