Pith Number

pith:GCD3THIA

pith:2019:GCD3THIAVZNF7AUMKKPJRJCYBP

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"The Perfect One": Understanding Communication Practices and Challenges with Animated GIFs

Casey Fiesler, Jed R. Brubaker, Jialun "Aaron" Jiang

arxiv:1903.09623 v1 · 2019-03-22 · cs.HC

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GCD3THIAVZNF7AUMKKPJRJCYBP}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications 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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-05-17T23:50:39.161520Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3087b99d00ae5a5f828c529e98a4580be3c58f2913d5ccd81d28568f30ea3128

Aliases

arxiv: 1903.09623 · arxiv_version: 1903.09623v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1903.09623 · pith_short_12: GCD3THIAVZNF · pith_short_16: GCD3THIAVZNF7AUM · pith_short_8: GCD3THIA

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/GCD3THIAVZNF7AUMKKPJRJCYBP \
  | 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: 3087b99d00ae5a5f828c529e98a4580be3c58f2913d5ccd81d28568f30ea3128

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "673a551e9c51f0f72d55444b365f6fee309591b19f0bc8675350305ddaa80d7d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2019-03-22T17:34:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f4181d83d984b568a9f46d8e2df28c9590ea2ced40b8c3b4b19e592ac2cc0388"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1903.09623",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}