Pith Number

pith:EXKJV6AR

pith:2007:EXKJV6ARIBYJ2BKAM65NPKCWNI

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Comparison of On-Line Computer Science Citation Databases

C. Lee Giles, Hui Han, Ingemar J. Cox, Isaac G. Councill, Vaclav Petricek

arxiv:cs/0703043 v1 · 2007-03-09 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{EXKJV6ARIBYJ2BKAM65NPKCWNI}

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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	2026-07-04T15:00:02.433127Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

25d49af81140709d054067bad7a8566a2d3d3e17873933e2d9ce3bbf1d9592b3

Aliases

arxiv: cs/0703043 · arxiv_version: cs/0703043v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.cs/0703043 · pith_short_12: EXKJV6ARIBYJ · pith_short_16: EXKJV6ARIBYJ2BKA · pith_short_8: EXKJV6AR

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/EXKJV6ARIBYJ2BKAM65NPKCWNI \
  | 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: 25d49af81140709d054067bad7a8566a2d3d3e17873933e2d9ce3bbf1d9592b3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62631949a55a8808847ef096f4b1a97b35106cfe2cb94062b6f9f41e6f2feaea",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2007-03-09T16:00:55Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b0f1a4d776760c614c4af62f910356b8900edc76dd6b8c42e751e38deab5ef98"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "cs/0703043",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}