Boston Food Establishment Inspections
Description
This dataset contains two real-world OCEL 2.0 logs extracted from the City of Boston’s Food Establishment Inspections dataset. They connect inspection results with food licenses and properties; the detailed log also includes individual finding observations.
| Log | Events | Event types | Objects | Object types | Period |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Inspection history | 220,270 | 18 | 236,108 | 3 | April 2006–October 2026 |
| Inspection findings | 60,304 | 13 | 239,811 | 4 | 2022–2025 |
The logs overlap and must not be concatenated as independent datasets. The findings log enriches the history log’s eligible 2022–2025 events, preserving common event and object identifiers.
Inspection identities are reconstructed from license numbers and exact result timestamps. Recorded results include administrative outcomes and should not all be interpreted as on-site visits. License and finding attributes describe the extraction snapshot, rather than historical states. Findings are individual observations, not linked violation episodes.
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Boston Food Establishment Inspection Results and Findings in OCEL 2.0
Both logs are available in JSON, XML, SQLite, CSV, and bundled OCEL ZIP formats. The overview’s preview opens the smaller findings log.
Potential Uses
The logs support inspection outcome-sequence discovery, comparisons of license and property perspectives, and analysis of recorded finding composition. A subsequent passing result does not establish a remediation episode or repair duration.
The companion repository provides extraction and validation code, source provenance, reproducibility instructions, and a quality report.