Pith Number

pith:HOWP2Y3J

pith:2023:HOWP2Y3JQNWUAYHVBYVEKV2KLR

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Explaining the Arts: Toward a Framework for Matching Creative Tasks with Appropriate Explanation Mediums

Michael Clemens

arxiv:2308.09586 v1 · 2023-08-18 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{HOWP2Y3JQNWUAYHVBYVEKV2KLR}

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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	2026-07-05T06:42:35.021995Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

3bacfd6369836d4060f50e2a45574a5c62f132d37e8025617d789aa52c895e9f

Aliases

arxiv: 2308.09586 · arxiv_version: 2308.09586v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2308.09586 · pith_short_12: HOWP2Y3JQNWU · pith_short_16: HOWP2Y3JQNWUAYHV · pith_short_8: HOWP2Y3J

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/HOWP2Y3JQNWUAYHVBYVEKV2KLR \
  | 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: 3bacfd6369836d4060f50e2a45574a5c62f132d37e8025617d789aa52c895e9f

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "73e463222647b7bd6555bed0bcdd58251fdc4626adb52f897f0f6c43c8a4410d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2023-08-18T14:29:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "402c591c6551d51e44b564e4adddd1ce511bb130b38165ae94896e3ea3a4ff36"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2308.09586",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}