Pith Number

pith:4JDQ2SJ4

pith:2016:4JDQ2SJ4GVHY5USP35WJEUIWFT

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

COTS software in science operations, is it worth it?

Alexander Hutton, Jose Hernandez, Nana Bach, Rosario Messineo, William O'Mullane

arxiv:1701.06484 v1 · 2016-11-11 · astro-ph.IM

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4JDQ2SJ4GVHY5USP35WJEUIWFT}

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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	2026-05-18T00:52:18.231534Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e2470d493c354f8ed24fdf6c9251162ccde8ba28d6c975c32f6cd20b229a91f1

Aliases

arxiv: 1701.06484 · arxiv_version: 1701.06484v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1701.06484 · pith_short_12: 4JDQ2SJ4GVHY · pith_short_16: 4JDQ2SJ4GVHY5USP · pith_short_8: 4JDQ2SJ4

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/4JDQ2SJ4GVHY5USP35WJEUIWFT \
  | 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: e2470d493c354f8ed24fdf6c9251162ccde8ba28d6c975c32f6cd20b229a91f1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6d48b06ba3ae26ed8aafd8102b674cb035396d121cbbc5a1658b227e479f5325",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "astro-ph.IM",
    "submitted_at": "2016-11-11T11:19:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a82677d9d2e46d79e772a72cd59de2c40d635831bf566773990d3923863c54ff"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1701.06484",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}