Pith Number

pith:FVY4MSG4

pith:2020:FVY4MSG4O475QVM4RAMOYJWDOM

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Informal Data Transformation Considered Harmful

Eric Daimler, Ryan Wisnesky

arxiv:2001.00338 v1 · 2020-01-02 · cs.DB · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{FVY4MSG4O475QVM4RAMOYJWDOM}

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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	2026-07-05T00:29:23.202659Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

2d71c648dc773fd8559c8818ec26c373317a2d66785c38066b620e7d2aefa9be

Aliases

arxiv: 2001.00338 · arxiv_version: 2001.00338v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2001.00338 · pith_short_12: FVY4MSG4O475 · pith_short_16: FVY4MSG4O475QVM4 · pith_short_8: FVY4MSG4

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/FVY4MSG4O475QVM4RAMOYJWDOM \
  | 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: 2d71c648dc773fd8559c8818ec26c373317a2d66785c38066b620e7d2aefa9be

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a1adfa1e5b024fa75f066058185d2a1803103e132af8f7c5303a34f8ef0bc9a9",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2020-01-02T06:26:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "da548a0afb90dcb316293b98cf1a61b2d8b1fa7df791740e628b92f6a45d8363"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2001.00338",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}