Pith Number

pith:45VB2HUG

pith:2024:45VB2HUGLKNSGUQHGPAGMZMP5F

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A semantic approach to mapping the Provenance Ontology to Basic Formal Ontology

Alec Sculley, Austin Liebers, Giacomo De Colle, John Beverley, Peihong "Karl" Xie, Sydney Cohen, Tim Prudhomme

arxiv:2408.03866 v2 · 2024-08-02 · cs.DB · cs.AI · cs.LO

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{45VB2HUGLKNSGUQHGPAGMZMP5F}

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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	2026-07-05T10:37:31.790891Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e76a1d1e865a9b23520733c066658fe96b8b31e4fcd583f74c284f8cf8ca817a

Aliases

arxiv: 2408.03866 · arxiv_version: 2408.03866v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2408.03866 · pith_short_12: 45VB2HUGLKNS · pith_short_16: 45VB2HUGLKNSGUQH · pith_short_8: 45VB2HUG

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/45VB2HUGLKNSGUQHGPAGMZMP5F \
  | 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: e76a1d1e865a9b23520733c066658fe96b8b31e4fcd583f74c284f8cf8ca817a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "5890109121778a995b619f28cb983ee0c3b8b995e50cd3221f02f3f2c1c9a997",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI",
      "cs.LO"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2024-08-02T16:50:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8ab16b69133ea0a333fadc6d097452479f809f8daa0064a147dcca4a997feffe"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2408.03866",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}