Pith Number

pith:BX6QADMU

pith:2020:BX6QADMUIEE2OSUOVFVS4ELFDN

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Toward Enabling Reproducibility for Data-Intensive Research using the Whole Tale Platform

Bertram Ludaescher, Craig Willis, Ian Taylor, Jarek Nabrzyski, Kacper Kowalik, Kyle Chard, Matthew J. Turk, Mihael Hategan, Niall Gaffney, Thomas Thelen, Timothy McPhillips, Victoria Stodden

arxiv:2005.06087 v1 · 2020-05-12 · cs.DC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BX6QADMUIEE2OSUOVFVS4ELFDN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-07-05T01:02:31.925369Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0dfd000d944109a74a8ea96b2e11651b6002dde1ad10cab8d1afd9595c7a7547

Aliases

arxiv: 2005.06087 · arxiv_version: 2005.06087v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2005.06087 · pith_short_12: BX6QADMUIEE2 · pith_short_16: BX6QADMUIEE2OSUO · pith_short_8: BX6QADMU

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/BX6QADMUIEE2OSUOVFVS4ELFDN \
  | 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: 0dfd000d944109a74a8ea96b2e11651b6002dde1ad10cab8d1afd9595c7a7547

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7eddd9917ac75c96ce0aa4c50031dbb2199ec44eac7809fe06a90f3e6cdf3c0e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2020-05-12T23:23:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "85e3bdf46e71e8bf9fcc20c7576af99bcd2b6371d3701ff6cf710a2991f08074"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2005.06087",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}