Dataset
Big Belly Locations
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 data set contains descriptions and geographic coordinates…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Public Works Department
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 2
- Keywords
- big belly, hubhacks, legacy portal, public works, sanitation, trash
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/big-belly-locations
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 | referenced | 33949 | 90bdb4631003d967dd23d42e28b075ad8edc90e30a1eb81caa0c7ab5c9f25392 | 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 |
|---|---|---|
description | text | |
Location | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:big-belly-locations
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/big-belly-locations
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/big-belly-locations.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-locations
- Attribution
- City of Boston
- Rights as stated
- Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)
Transform ladder
| # | Operation | Description | Tool |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fetch | retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |
| 2 | normalize | mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim | archive-ingest 0.1.0 |