Pith Number

pith:GSTCQEHA

pith:2016:GSTCQEHAUAOWMSQCJ7GIIKN74T

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Web Infrastructure to Support e-Journal Preservation (and More)

David S. H. Rosenthal, Herbert Van de Sompel, Michael L. Nelson

arxiv:1605.06154 v1 · 2016-05-19 · cs.DL

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{GSTCQEHAUAOWMSQCJ7GIIKN74T}

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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	2026-05-18T01:14:19.823365Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

34a62810e0a01d664a024fcc8429bfe4c5ae9c9f0a3a6a55a8cb6c985016bd03

Aliases

arxiv: 1605.06154 · arxiv_version: 1605.06154v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1605.06154 · pith_short_12: GSTCQEHAUAOW · pith_short_16: GSTCQEHAUAOWMSQC · pith_short_8: GSTCQEHA

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/GSTCQEHAUAOWMSQCJ7GIIKN74T \
  | 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: 34a62810e0a01d664a024fcc8429bfe4c5ae9c9f0a3a6a55a8cb6c985016bd03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ed1baa5f7544d99404459f33532d059b1fa3c81fb50c291606528dd7c6559943",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-05-19T21:44:01Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9e807893c8074c270fae7e0af4d3fbf45980a49dcf5d2a048b3f496db1268aba"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1605.06154",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}