Pith Number

pith:4YLNIDQP

pith:2020:4YLNIDQPTTMWJBPVLXW55UEDD4

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We Need to Rethink How We Describe and Organize Spatial Information: Instrumenting and Observing the Community of Users to Improve Data Description and Discovery

Benjamin Adams, Mark Gahegan

arxiv:2010.09139 v1 · 2020-10-18 · cs.SI · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{4YLNIDQPTTMWJBPVLXW55UEDD4}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T01:44:01.516395Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e616d40e0f9cd96485f55dedded0831f128217fcbd3ad0a56e9b8b40e1aa41e5

Aliases

arxiv: 2010.09139 · arxiv_version: 2010.09139v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2010.09139 · pith_short_12: 4YLNIDQPTTMW · pith_short_16: 4YLNIDQPTTMWJBPV · pith_short_8: 4YLNIDQP

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/4YLNIDQPTTMWJBPVLXW55UEDD4 \
  | 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: e616d40e0f9cd96485f55dedded0831f128217fcbd3ad0a56e9b8b40e1aa41e5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c70fdaac7641f84079ad1daa543c29c9df311c6a842af17b36ed2f1e7c7b747a",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2020-10-18T23:21:50Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "606aa89497a063d5435f3be2f0ee28c525ff6ebcb3c98b203973879e5e4ff38d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2010.09139",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}