Dataset
Section 12 Licenses (Alcohol)
The Licensing Board for the City of Boston enforces alcohol license law under Section 12, Section 15, and Section 19 of Chapter 138 of the Massachusetts General Laws. Alcohol licenses are issued by the City of Boston Licensing Board and approved by the Massachusetts Alcohol Beverage Control…
Dataset
- Publisher
- Boston Licensing Board
- Spatial coverage
- all
- Fields
- 24
- Keywords
- alcohol, licensing board, liquor licenses
- Publisher's page
- https://data.boston.gov/dataset/liquor-licenses
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 |
|---|---|---|
license_num | text | |
historicallicensenum | text | |
status | text | |
license_type | text | |
issued | text | |
expires | text | |
business_name | text | |
dba_name | text | |
comments | text | |
location_comments | text | |
opening | text | |
closing | text | |
patronsout | text | |
capacity | text | |
applicant | text | |
manager | text | |
day_phone | text | |
evening_phone | text | |
address | text | |
city | text | |
state | text | |
zip | text | |
gpsx | text | |
gpsy | text |
Identity
- Identifier
- urn:lemay:boston:dataset:liquor-licenses-2
- Canonical URL
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/liquor-licenses-2
- As JSON
- https://boston.fyi/dataset/liquor-licenses-2.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
- liquor-licenses
- 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 |