Pith Number

pith:2CGX3DRZ

pith:2023:2CGX3DRZDYAZRUENXXLWEI4CDV

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Software Architecture in Practice: Challenges and Opportunities

David Lo, Xin Xia, Yi Jiang, Yun Zhang, Zhiyuan Wan

arxiv:2308.09978 v2 · 2023-08-19 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2CGX3DRZDYAZRUENXXLWEI4CDV}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

✓ Portable graph bundle live · download bundle · merged state

The bundle contains the canonical record plus signed events. A mirror can host it anywhere and recompute the same current state with the deterministic merge algorithm.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T06:43:26.026086Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d08d7d8e391e0198d08dbdd76223821d4d98e2e1005aff466471398b4e3aeeff

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.09978 · arxiv_version: 2308.09978v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.09978 · pith_short_12: 2CGX3DRZDYAZ · pith_short_16: 2CGX3DRZDYAZRUEN · pith_short_8: 2CGX3DRZ

Agent API

Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/2CGX3DRZDYAZRUENXXLWEI4CDV \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: d08d7d8e391e0198d08dbdd76223821d4d98e2e1005aff466471398b4e3aeeff

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "803767ab6650d285d66145f8a74d029c86a56496e7321668f5363dc506087ebf",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-19T10:58:47Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f262637a11c151450904c620411c17d97bdb6a332b5713354a6c4b3951782b95"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.09978",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}