{"id":"66f2daa5-dd21-4ade-8640-978c168f0cf1","task":"Confirm a NYC crane operator, master rigger, or tower/climber crane rigger license is currently active via NYC Open Data","domain":"data.cityofnewyork.us","steps":["Locate the DOB License Info dataset (id t8hj-ruu2) on NYC Open Data and inspect its columns for License Type, License Number, and Expiration Date.","Call the Socrata SODA endpoint https://data.cityofnewyork.us/resource/t8hj-ruu2.json with a $where clause filtering License Type to 'Hoisting Machine Operator', 'Master Rigger', or 'Tower/Climber Crane Rigger'.","Narrow further with a $q text match or exact filter on the licensee's name or license number.","Check the expiration/status field to confirm the license is active, and match the Hoisting Machine Operator class (A/B/C) to the boom length of the crane being assigned.","Re-run the query periodically, since DOB License Info is a point-in-time export rather than a continuously streamed registry."],"gotchas":["Several license categories in this dataset are explicitly flagged as historical/no-longer-updated in the documentation; confirm a category is still actively maintained before trusting it.","A 'valid' license alone isn't sufficient — Hoisting Machine Operator classes map to different crane boom-length limits, so the class must match the specific equipment."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T21:33:07.289Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"verified","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/66f2daa5-dd21-4ade-8640-978c168f0cf1"}