Pith Number

pith:2RQ5VUOP

pith:2025:2RQ5VUOP5GK2YFB3UO55F4WM2R

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Ten Essential Guidelines for Building High-Quality Research Software

Alex Koufos, David E. Bernholdt, David J. Luet, Miranda Mundt, Nasir U. Eisty

arxiv:2507.16166 v1 · 2025-07-22 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{2RQ5VUOP5GK2YFB3UO55F4WM2R}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

2 Internet Archive

3 Author claim open · sign in to claim

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	2026-07-05T11:41:04.397309Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

d461dad1cfe995ac143ba3bbd2f2ccd44b839d70912f18b68572ad5127cfaa38

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.16166 · arxiv_version: 2507.16166v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.16166 · pith_short_12: 2RQ5VUOP5GK2 · pith_short_16: 2RQ5VUOP5GK2YFB3 · pith_short_8: 2RQ5VUOP

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/2RQ5VUOP5GK2YFB3UO55F4WM2R \
  | 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: d461dad1cfe995ac143ba3bbd2f2ccd44b839d70912f18b68572ad5127cfaa38

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1d53cee3159c914190f8ec4fb3f75812e981387fb9e59de40f5f0097eec705ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-22T02:22:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "585862bd30e21d82893feea3371558ad35300ed50076768c23204d3c58429244"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.16166",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}