Pith Number

pith:AVTIM6LK

pith:2012:AVTIM6LKBWC5TOFUE3W7FZWJRM

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Information Carriers and Identification of Information Objects: An Ontological Approach

Martin Doerr, Yannis Tzitzikas

arxiv:1201.0385 v2 · 2012-01-01 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{AVTIM6LKBWC5TOFUE3W7FZWJRM}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T03:38:43.929401Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

056686796a0d85d9b8b426edf2e6c98b33822a7cd7f531377f6bb1726950e941

Aliases

arxiv: 1201.0385 · arxiv_version: 1201.0385v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1201.0385 · pith_short_12: AVTIM6LKBWC5 · pith_short_16: AVTIM6LKBWC5TOFU · pith_short_8: AVTIM6LK

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/AVTIM6LKBWC5TOFUE3W7FZWJRM \
  | 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: 056686796a0d85d9b8b426edf2e6c98b33822a7cd7f531377f6bb1726950e941

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "488adf6b2af2ed3030b28e17453165ce3ad97ffa26e7097e433bbd11a1bbbb62",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2012-01-01T21:04:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "28b9aff8ec1dfc6d2570f99810510ce957e7ee606a8abfa7b85f9c46c2434fb1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1201.0385",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}