Pith Number

pith:BULTW3BR

pith:2025:BULTW3BRXC2TBRR5WUSLS67LBJ

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EVOSCAT: Exploring Software Change Dynamics in Large-Scale Historical Datasets

Cesare Pautasso, Diana Carolina Mu\~noz Hurtado, Edoardo Riggio, Hassan Atwi, Souhaila Serbout

arxiv:2508.10852 v1 · 2025-08-14 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BULTW3BRXC2TBRR5WUSLS67LBJ}

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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	2026-07-05T11:54:03.607699Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0d173b6c31b8b530c63db524b97beb0a7695bd3cbe834a4c0f74825c8f0d64dd

Aliases

arxiv: 2508.10852 · arxiv_version: 2508.10852v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.10852 · pith_short_12: BULTW3BRXC2T · pith_short_16: BULTW3BRXC2TBRR5 · pith_short_8: BULTW3BR

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/BULTW3BRXC2TBRR5WUSLS67LBJ \
  | 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: 0d173b6c31b8b530c63db524b97beb0a7695bd3cbe834a4c0f74825c8f0d64dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "6bf6418e6ecd73a861c66efa5a8980c8512c27051b19905e07902797a8934903",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-08-14T17:20:27Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "815b8f2e03931881e6ef9129052f50ed3f73233a0dc781a44593be5834cd9ebd"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2508.10852",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}