Pith Number

pith:5RLNJO6T

pith:2016:5RLNJO6TGIKYZKJP63FUTT2OTP

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Crowdsourced, Actionable and Verifiable Contextual Informational Norms

Helen Nissenbaum, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Paula Kift, Prateek Mittal, Schrasing Tong, Thomas Wies, Yan Shvartzshnaider

arxiv:1601.04740 v4 · 2016-01-18 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{5RLNJO6TGIKYZKJP63FUTT2OTP}

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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	2026-05-18T01:20:18.781396Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

ec56d4bbd332158ca92ff6cb49cf4e9bd8a043c67df3f2f38f554d2fd684e148

Aliases

arxiv: 1601.04740 · arxiv_version: 1601.04740v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1601.04740 · pith_short_12: 5RLNJO6TGIKY · pith_short_16: 5RLNJO6TGIKYZKJP · pith_short_8: 5RLNJO6T

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/5RLNJO6TGIKYZKJP63FUTT2OTP \
  | 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: ec56d4bbd332158ca92ff6cb49cf4e9bd8a043c67df3f2f38f554d2fd684e148

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8cdc6de2ff68e17b4d2e5f55708884ce56ade43f6640ef1cf503913f9a788be8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-01-18T22:11:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3876e98aa70bd07ad3ef603848d82dca8f01c2f3c3c76ba9fda794ecb227a623"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1601.04740",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}