Pith Number

pith:3OD2PMAN

pith:2011:3OD2PMANOQGBY4ESL4OVUQJOD6

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Putting Lipstick on Pig: Enabling Database-style Workflow Provenance

Daniel Deutch, Julia Stoyanovich, Susan B. Davidson, Tova Milo, Val Tannen, Yael Amsterdamer

arxiv:1201.0231 v1 · 2011-12-31 · cs.DB

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3OD2PMANOQGBY4ESL4OVUQJOD6}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T04:05:25.750354Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

db87a7b00d740c1c70925f1d5a412e1fbd508b3a69409d7a764e9307a88fbe05

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.0231 · arxiv_version: 1201.0231v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.0231 · pith_short_12: 3OD2PMANOQGB · pith_short_16: 3OD2PMANOQGBY4ES · pith_short_8: 3OD2PMAN

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/3OD2PMANOQGBY4ESL4OVUQJOD6 \
  | 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: db87a7b00d740c1c70925f1d5a412e1fbd508b3a69409d7a764e9307a88fbe05

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d354ecfb9243b55914a338315ba7a62ccb9404e49dc44ba666bd2d90bbd54b7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2011-12-31T05:35:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "026125866675aaeff9c8153c30aaa2c3f41894697bd1d857228d69cfac965196"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.0231",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}