Pith Number

pith:F6ESZSPL

pith:2018:F6ESZSPLDWYRDHAX5XLBDSAAQO

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Software Professionals are Not Directors: What Constitutes a Good Video?

Kurt Schneider, Oliver Karras

arxiv:1808.04986 v1 · 2018-08-15 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{F6ESZSPLDWYRDHAX5XLBDSAAQO}

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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	2026-05-18T00:08:01.956308Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2f892cc9eb1db1119c17edd611c80083880c8c75b863a5fe3404ec12b020205e

Aliases

arxiv: 1808.04986 · arxiv_version: 1808.04986v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1808.04986 · pith_short_12: F6ESZSPLDWYR · pith_short_16: F6ESZSPLDWYRDHAX · pith_short_8: F6ESZSPL

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/F6ESZSPLDWYRDHAX5XLBDSAAQO \
  | 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: 2f892cc9eb1db1119c17edd611c80083880c8c75b863a5fe3404ec12b020205e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7d15daf16a064256d38b801f27ef0bec3b140ab2b9e00ddc7408199476760613",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2018-08-15T07:18:26Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "11f97018c5b39daad72756cd3e5b1b1aef2e487be07ab168e4c7e29b4be3b98f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1808.04986",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}