Pith Number

pith:DBCZFRHY

pith:2018:DBCZFRHYMK4P62GWNS43DHGESZ

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Empirical Software Engineering: From Discipline to Interdiscipline

Daniel M\'endez Fern\'andez, Jan-Hendrik Passoth

arxiv:1805.08302 v3 · 2018-05-21 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{DBCZFRHYMK4P62GWNS43DHGESZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:00:30.282893Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

184592c4f862b8ff68d66cb9b19cc49669433d0f59407d945487881e9f71931a

Aliases

arxiv: 1805.08302 · arxiv_version: 1805.08302v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1805.08302 · pith_short_12: DBCZFRHYMK4P · pith_short_16: DBCZFRHYMK4P62GW · pith_short_8: DBCZFRHY

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/DBCZFRHYMK4P62GWNS43DHGESZ \
  | 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: 184592c4f862b8ff68d66cb9b19cc49669433d0f59407d945487881e9f71931a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8ea880578c3e8543ef727d1620493dcd3255b49cb64d82fd67fe816355cd3a3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-05-21T21:55:24Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "69810a97fcd00cf4a3907b9e2ad9eedfd811e551c01ea7306db1f2f1fd3c5b9b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1805.08302",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}