Pith Number

pith:6ODVYA4F

pith:2016:6ODVYA4FLDSZSTN5ZOKW7R6BMX

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IT outsourcing decision factors in research and practice: a case study

Aileen Cater-Steel, Michael Lane, Mohammad Mehdi Rajaeian

arxiv:1606.01454 v1 · 2016-06-05 · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{6ODVYA4FLDSZSTN5ZOKW7R6BMX}

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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	2026-05-18T01:12:54.122372Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

f3875c038558e5994dbdcb956fc7c165c3ebd24169a2398b92ea83ca40a9fd33

Aliases

arxiv: 1606.01454 · arxiv_version: 1606.01454v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1606.01454 · pith_short_12: 6ODVYA4FLDSZ · pith_short_16: 6ODVYA4FLDSZSTN5 · pith_short_8: 6ODVYA4F

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/6ODVYA4FLDSZSTN5ZOKW7R6BMX \
  | 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: f3875c038558e5994dbdcb956fc7c165c3ebd24169a2398b92ea83ca40a9fd33

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ac20bfa6dcc6038e1273987a246e4023123ac4dadf2934602a80e49a2e820ac2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2016-06-05T02:37:03Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "43b28e1cfdb22b8a9b7515a2cc58b32b262277fccb899c9b0f08d05bb5c72f3b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1606.01454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}