Pith Number

pith:BYCKVJTN

pith:2014:BYCKVJTNSVWVG2RQ7JTAOKV24T

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A distributed Integrity Catalog for digital repositories

Mema Roussopoulos, Nikos Chondros

arxiv:1403.1180 v2 · 2014-02-04 · cs.DB · cs.DC · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BYCKVJTNSVWVG2RQ7JTAOKV24T}

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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	2026-05-18T02:41:59.542693Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0e04aaa66d956d536a30fa66072abae4e2a9ac5063a5ac18705fd25e56b5b4dd

Aliases

arxiv: 1403.1180 · arxiv_version: 1403.1180v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1403.1180 · pith_short_12: BYCKVJTNSVWV · pith_short_16: BYCKVJTNSVWVG2RQ · pith_short_8: BYCKVJTN

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/BYCKVJTNSVWVG2RQ7JTAOKV24T \
  | 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: 0e04aaa66d956d536a30fa66072abae4e2a9ac5063a5ac18705fd25e56b5b4dd

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "58079d806615b9c39a2cb324d98959804431277cf70be96e911ae0a88cc51cc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC",
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2014-02-04T17:52:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "42201b7037beb981e6117ee063f50a7dd4b0ae79a1c932b04a4b8db4c4cb024e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1403.1180",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}