Pith Number

pith:GGPLKVFS

pith:2015:GGPLKVFSAMBOJX3C63XSF5IVH7

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a unified query language for provenance and versioning

Aaron Elmore, Aditya Parameswaran, Amit Chavan, Amol Deshpande, Samuel Madden, Silu Huang

arxiv:1506.04815 v1 · 2015-06-16 · cs.DB

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GGPLKVFSAMBOJX3C63XSF5IVH7}

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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	2026-05-18T01:48:05.814230Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

319eb554b20302e4df62f6ef22f5153fe33d0255ab1d2a5ddec17ef78521c627

Aliases

arxiv: 1506.04815 · arxiv_version: 1506.04815v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1506.04815 · pith_short_12: GGPLKVFSAMBO · pith_short_16: GGPLKVFSAMBOJX3C · pith_short_8: GGPLKVFS

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/GGPLKVFSAMBOJX3C63XSF5IVH7 \
  | 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: 319eb554b20302e4df62f6ef22f5153fe33d0255ab1d2a5ddec17ef78521c627

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "596ead081f0e496b81650eda7d3094a99b442a9645a80f85dfbf15aab328d838",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2015-06-16T01:32:51Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "c5c4337be0d118f711e4b48d76792c81edaf159b7b3146cbf9a6bd01dd8be248"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1506.04815",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}