Pith Number

pith:EAM3LHSK

pith:2015:EAM3LHSKWFZ2C5V7KQXZEGC3VE

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Quantifying Cultural Histories via Person Networks in Wikipedia

Dieter Merkl, Doron Goldfarb, Maximilian Schich

arxiv:1506.06580 v1 · 2015-06-22 · cs.SI · physics.soc-ph

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EAM3LHSKWFZ2C5V7KQXZEGC3VE}

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4 Citations 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.

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First computed	2026-05-18T01:41:44.803659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2019b59e4ab173a176bf542f92185ba919efc09df42056190af938908892b6de

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.06580 · arxiv_version: 1506.06580v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.06580 · pith_short_12: EAM3LHSKWFZ2 · pith_short_16: EAM3LHSKWFZ2C5V7 · pith_short_8: EAM3LHSK

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/EAM3LHSKWFZ2C5V7KQXZEGC3VE \
  | 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: 2019b59e4ab173a176bf542f92185ba919efc09df42056190af938908892b6de

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "572945593daaa24951a5276de137f80832bd4c1459fa878d70471aa4376772d6",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "physics.soc-ph"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-22T12:57:40Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cc171e161b4d7c5b84b42ee7314bb9670d664d289dc8e3db52cfbebcaab7e17b"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.06580",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}