Pith Number

pith:3WGFLP5B

pith:2017:3WGFLP5BTXE6NF6NLA7W6EWDDV

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Discussion quality diffuses in the digital public square

George Berry, Sean J. Taylor

arxiv:1702.06677 v1 · 2017-02-22 · cs.CY · cs.CL · cs.SI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{3WGFLP5BTXE6NF6NLA7W6EWDDV}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:50:12.977267Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

dd8c55bfa19dc9e697cd583f6f12c31d445b95076b5ca37e422b1f7d092090c8

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.06677 · arxiv_version: 1702.06677v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.06677 · pith_short_12: 3WGFLP5BTXE6 · pith_short_16: 3WGFLP5BTXE6NF6N · pith_short_8: 3WGFLP5B

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/3WGFLP5BTXE6NF6NLA7W6EWDDV \
  | 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: dd8c55bfa19dc9e697cd583f6f12c31d445b95076b5ca37e422b1f7d092090c8

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "56b7fecf0aff194dc5313683329bc50ee59be5e569b925146bee182a996cda5b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CL",
      "cs.SI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-22T04:54:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8848f70aa7fa007c1a08caa9238031c7361217af06ac8d6821cf1228d1b96d30"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.06677",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}