Pith Number

pith:L2PONJE3

pith:2017:L2PONJE3CJD6XBFN7OF6Q7PILR

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Theory and Practice of Data Citation

Gianmaria Silvello

arxiv:1706.07976 v1 · 2017-06-24 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{L2PONJE3CJD6XBFN7OF6Q7PILR}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:34:15.069817Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

5e9ee6a49b1247eb84adfb8be87de85c53bfe8a2712283c62769dfacef6c45ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.07976 · arxiv_version: 1706.07976v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.07976 · pith_short_12: L2PONJE3CJD6 · pith_short_16: L2PONJE3CJD6XBFN · pith_short_8: L2PONJE3

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/L2PONJE3CJD6XBFN7OF6Q7PILR \
  | 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: 5e9ee6a49b1247eb84adfb8be87de85c53bfe8a2712283c62769dfacef6c45ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "8f7f82c093db94a008fcee19c1d0d8b12c72761bc157cdcaabda2de6e0fcc688",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-24T15:59:29Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "b35f241d9f04c02fe5bb833a4eddda84e126a0eb1d7700070c3ef2d951c3f558"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.07976",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}