Dataset
Certified Business Directory
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Dataset
- Publisher
- Office of Economic Development
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 30
- Keywords
- business, certified, contracting, economic development, equitable procurement, equity, inclusion, minority-owned, outreach, procurement, supplier diversity, vendors, veteran-owned, women-owned
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/certified-business-directory
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 | 629852 | a233862c6f333acda0a209234f7ec19df46293d5941db8c489e7da314b67ae74 | source |
| CSV | referenced | 50933 | 690f03110f816e36375a74849b7c019434c4bb41defe66f2f86e39fd1897da5d | source |
| CSV | referenced | 36414 | 548cc7fa40c5bee823e13153a820ac4ba59c64f171558066883b7126f6eddabb | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| HTML | referenced | — | — | source |
| referenced | — | — | source | |
| referenced | 44563 | — | 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 |
|---|---|---|
company_name | text | |
services_provided | text | |
mbe_wbe_cert | text | |
small_local_cert | text | |
veteran_cert | text | |
sdo_certified | text | |
city_registered | text | |
address | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zipcode | text | |
contact_name | text | |
contact_title | text | |
phone | text | |
fax | text | |
email | text | |
website | text | |
business_type | text | |
construction | text | |
date_business_established | text | |
number_employees | text | |
cob_category_codes1 | text | |
cob_category_codes2 | text | |
cob_category_codes3 | text | |
naics_codes1 | text | |
naics_codes2 | text | |
naics_codes3 | text | |
unspsc_code1 | text | |
unspsc_code2 | text | |
unspsc_code3 | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:certified-business-directory
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/certified-business-directory
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/certified-business-directory.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
- certified-business-directory
- 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 |