Pith Number

pith:6735K4XY

pith:2017:6735K4XYENR2ACAICRJEPZCFFQ

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Automatic link extraction: The good, the bad and the ugly in software ecosystem mining

Eleni Constantinou, Tom Mens

arxiv:1711.06908 v1 · 2017-11-18 · cs.SE

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6735K4XYENR2ACAICRJEPZCFFQ}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:30:15.241388Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f7f7d572f82363a00808145247e4452c0dfa8327d13fe6e5abb8f4c7b10bda4e

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.06908 · arxiv_version: 1711.06908v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.06908 · pith_short_12: 6735K4XYENR2 · pith_short_16: 6735K4XYENR2ACAI · pith_short_8: 6735K4XY

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/6735K4XYENR2ACAICRJEPZCFFQ \
  | 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: f7f7d572f82363a00808145247e4452c0dfa8327d13fe6e5abb8f4c7b10bda4e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4107ecd6afff16d9953e5864bffe123d909bab86ea3194f819c6b972e7797f4c",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-18T18:09:49Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "be8c94f92b1b369a66aee35c0bc03166d1afeb99716fe37ef7a7bcb265fde3d1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.06908",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}