Pith Number

pith:4BS3WFVC

pith:2017:4BS3WFVCK4LHF4MQBCPAXC25W7

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Discovering Scholarly Orphans Using ORCID

Herbert Van de Sompel, Martin Klein

arxiv:1703.09343 v1 · 2017-03-27 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4BS3WFVCK4LHF4MQBCPAXC25W7}

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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	2026-05-18T00:47:44.816790Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e065bb16a2571672f190089e0b8b5db7c29e460d906baa403927be4f42b52fe7

Aliases

arxiv: 1703.09343 · arxiv_version: 1703.09343v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1703.09343 · pith_short_12: 4BS3WFVCK4LH · pith_short_16: 4BS3WFVCK4LHF4MQ · pith_short_8: 4BS3WFVC

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/4BS3WFVCK4LHF4MQBCPAXC25W7 \
  | 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: e065bb16a2571672f190089e0b8b5db7c29e460d906baa403927be4f42b52fe7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "d8eb88248f4b18be43fc6800c4afe4e28774f50397673ab421b35a3ba4aa8654",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-03-27T23:36:02Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "6e04a9336920d7ebea1c756ec784cb39addf945c519ff6d818605f4bbeae022f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1703.09343",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}