The Boston ArchiveBoston, Massachusetts

Dataset

Big Belly Alerts 2014

Big Belly trash receptacles are solar powered, internet connected, compacting trash receptacles that can collect up to five times as much waste as traditional bins and help the city more efficiently manage the waste collection process. This is a legacy dataset containing all signals received from…

Dataset

Publisher
Public Works Department
Spatial coverage
all
Fields
5
Keywords
big belly, hubhacks, legacy portal, public works, sanitation, trash
Publisher's page
https://data.boston.gov/dataset/big-belly-alerts-2014

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
CSVreferenced4879381bf30b49cdaf8ee18f6a97471300295d4a7562f01aced7fc93c1fb4de81367de3source
PDFreferenced2190323ea81a3bac12ab20e42f34cf4033ce242c33f09af47ffb4dd4c80d57e3b79551source

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
descriptiontext
timestamptext
fullnesstext
collectiontext
Locationtext

Identity

Identifier
urn:lemay:boston:dataset:big-belly-alerts-2014
Canonical URL
https://boston.fyi/dataset/big-belly-alerts-2014
As JSON
https://boston.fyi/dataset/big-belly-alerts-2014.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
big-belly-alerts-2014
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