Pith Number

pith:5KTNHSAE

pith:2015:5KTNHSAEQLU32XOUARR4CXSDP5

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Actually, It's About Ethics in Computational Social Science: A Multi-party Risk-Benefit Framework for Online Community Research

Brian C. Keegan, J. Nathan Matias

arxiv:1511.06578 v1 · 2015-11-20 · cs.CY

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5KTNHSAEQLU32XOUARR4CXSDP5}

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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	2026-05-18T01:26:24.236969Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

eaa6d3c80482e9bd5dd40463c15e437f4120edc84a48f155764d76b54e6ec00b

Aliases

arxiv: 1511.06578 · arxiv_version: 1511.06578v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1511.06578 · pith_short_12: 5KTNHSAEQLU3 · pith_short_16: 5KTNHSAEQLU32XOU · pith_short_8: 5KTNHSAE

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/5KTNHSAEQLU32XOUARR4CXSDP5 \
  | 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: eaa6d3c80482e9bd5dd40463c15e437f4120edc84a48f155764d76b54e6ec00b

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b8d6f0a77fcfd688a0dce72ab710cd31a6852f2e714729e2dcf04b3bfb13e6ac",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2015-11-20T13:01:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "1602a61770cee2f31838d8039e0e4a1958d520e303bc0bdd62911e8f1251f3ad"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1511.06578",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}