Pith Number

pith:KN2K6LST

pith:2018:KN2K6LST7OG4MSMRPADD2OMBZX

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Connecting KOSs and the LOD Cloud

Andrea Scharnhorst, Richard P. Smiraglia, Rick Szostak, Wouter Beek

arxiv:1802.08141 v1 · 2018-02-22 · 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{KN2K6LST7OG4MSMRPADD2OMBZX}

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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	2026-05-18T00:22:45.423997Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5374af2e53fb8dc6499178063d3981cdc11389f564e108624699b1078b87aa03

Aliases

arxiv: 1802.08141 · arxiv_version: 1802.08141v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1802.08141 · pith_short_12: KN2K6LST7OG4 · pith_short_16: KN2K6LST7OG4MSMR · pith_short_8: KN2K6LST

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/KN2K6LST7OG4MSMRPADD2OMBZX \
  | 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: 5374af2e53fb8dc6499178063d3981cdc11389f564e108624699b1078b87aa03

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "3c73adc3d65a8c2c4fbe0429488c5c98f0ccce04e0c5eeaf8668b1179454c83d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-02-22T16:27:23Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "67d3ab6e7b8a07506f1616a7db68469c4e32f4ec376b899416121f4f4fa57c03"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1802.08141",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}