Pith Number

pith:MECR3GUH

pith:2013:MECR3GUHMO6HY7YNUEFQETTMAF

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards Technology Independent Strategies for SOA Implementations

He Zhang, Liam O'Brien, Zheng Li

arxiv:1302.2197 v1 · 2013-02-09 · cs.SE · cs.DC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{MECR3GUHMO6HY7YNUEFQETTMAF}

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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	2026-05-18T03:34:02.032505Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

61051d9a8763bc7c7f0da10b024e6c016a6e1e9e6c0ee15908482bddf2c58bd1

Aliases

arxiv: 1302.2197 · arxiv_version: 1302.2197v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1302.2197 · pith_short_12: MECR3GUHMO6H · pith_short_16: MECR3GUHMO6HY7YN · pith_short_8: MECR3GUH

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/MECR3GUHMO6HY7YNUEFQETTMAF \
  | 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: 61051d9a8763bc7c7f0da10b024e6c016a6e1e9e6c0ee15908482bddf2c58bd1

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7bc51392ec1f622b79ecbe003ed45ffbb3d5a52cc71261721cbd272ccb51df5f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2013-02-09T05:34:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "7d64cc973354cd15cd4431d4674bd705b02b11bf86984b46609f5621481bb408"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1302.2197",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}