The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Women-Owned Businesses

[Women Entrepreneurs Boston (WE BOS)](https://www.boston.gov/economic-development/women-entrepreneurs-boston) provides the skill-building opportunities, technical help, and networks to help women entrepreneurs launch and grow their businesses. WE BOS hosts an annual series of free events called…

Dataset

Publisher
Office of Economic Development
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
8
Keywords
business, economic development, economic opportunity and inclusion, economy, entrepreneurship, wmb, women, women-owned
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/women-owned-businesses

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
CSVpreserved52979ea247629a02d426d4e190d5f23c1c80956f446e19fe1e4f9a0d087fc9567454bsource

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
Business Nametext
Business Typetext
Physical Location/Addresstext
Business Zipcodetext
Business Websitetext
Business Phone Numbertext
Business Emailtext
Other Informationtext

The complete dictionary, exactly as the publisher words it, is served as its own holding at /asset/1f08850981d19addc48746975acb3717/women-owned-businesses-columns.json — 955 bytes, SHA-256 1f08850981d19add…, 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 Women-Owned Businesses, and under what license?

Office of Economic Development 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 Women-Owned Businesses 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 Women-Owned Businesses?

8 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 Women-Owned Businesses?

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 Women-Owned Businesses, and under what license?

The Boston Archive holds this record of Women-Owned Businesses 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:women-owned-businesses
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/women-owned-businesses
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/women-owned-businesses.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
women-owned-businesses
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 8-column dictionary left the inline page graph and became a preserved holding at /asset/1f08850981d19addc48746975acb3717/women-owned-businesses-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