Pith Number

pith:5HSDXMCE

pith:2013:5HSDXMCETSNW7LLWXAZCFOZVR5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Policy-Carrying, Policy-Enforcing Digital Objects

Carl Lagoze, Sandra Payette

arxiv:1312.1260 v1 · 2013-12-04 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5HSDXMCETSNW7LLWXAZCFOZVR5}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T03:05:28.897477Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

e9e43bb0449c9b6fad76b83222bb358f4b9a1c4fdc934fb635b4ed8f63b9dae7

Aliases

arxiv: 1312.1260 · arxiv_version: 1312.1260v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1312.1260 · pith_short_12: 5HSDXMCETSNW · pith_short_16: 5HSDXMCETSNW7LLW · pith_short_8: 5HSDXMCE

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/5HSDXMCETSNW7LLWXAZCFOZVR5 \
  | 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: e9e43bb0449c9b6fad76b83222bb358f4b9a1c4fdc934fb635b4ed8f63b9dae7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "e2aa90e2518bc57f01b1d011ff52eda1497dbccfd8e75260e029e55d635e566c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2013-12-04T17:54:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7cc7bc604a736ada734752f9c2285f16179c3af849905051e4145f1c2c4380d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1312.1260",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}