Holdings
What the archive holds
Every number here is read from the archive itself. The front door cannot overstate what is behind it.
2015records
1765entities
225datasets
2documents
23claims
1300official places
23vernacular names
48folk narratives
49tellings
6source collections
0artifacts held
1944records indexed
187 candidate records were refused and the refusals kept on the record. A collection is only auditable if what it excluded stands beside what it holds.
Source collections
| Collection | Publisher | Licence | Records |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) The City of Boston's CKAN open-data catalogue. Every dataset the city publishes about itself, with the city's own metadata and its own column dictionaries preserved verbatim. | City of Boston | Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 public_domain | 1445 |
| USGS Geographic Names Information System — Domestic Names, Massachusetts The federal gazetteer: every geographic name the United States Board on Geographic Names has entered for Massachusetts, with its feature class, its coordinates, and its federal identifier. | United States Geological Survey | United States Government Work — public domain public_domain | 470 |
| Skinner, Myths and Legends of Our Own Land (1896) Skinner's national collection, published at Philadelphia in 1896. Its New England section carries the Boston and eastern Massachusetts legends, several of them in variants that differ from Drake's. | Charles Montgomery Skinner, 1852–1907 | Public domain — published before 1929 public_domain | 30 |
| Boston Planning Department neighborhood boundaries The official neighborhood boundaries of the City of Boston, as promulgated by the planning authority. The official geographic layer of this archive. | Boston Planning Department (formerly BPDA) | Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 public_domain | 27 |
| Drake, A Book of New England Legends and Folk Lore (1884) Drake's collection, published at Boston in 1884. One of the earliest systematic printings of the legends of eastern Massachusetts, and for many of them the first attestation in print this archive can name. | Samuel Adams Drake, 1833–1905 | Public domain — published before 1929 public_domain | 22 |
| English Wikipedia A reference work under a share-alike licence. The archive uses it for one purpose: as an ATTESTOR of vernacular usage. A claim is filed only when the article's own text is found to contain the name, and the sentence that contains it is quoted as the evidence. Nothing is filed on the strength of the archive's belief that a name is used. | Wikimedia Foundation and its contributors | Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 open | 21 |
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