Pith Number

pith:ML7QRFMW

pith:2017:ML7QRFMWFJCJCBMU5QNVO7ZKS6

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Understanding Software in Research: Initial Results from Examining Nature and a Call for Collaboration

Daniel S. Katz, Udit Nangia

arxiv:1706.06527 v1 · 2017-06-20 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{ML7QRFMWFJCJCBMU5QNVO7ZKS6}

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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	2026-05-18T00:10:19.410737Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

62ff0895962a44910594ec1b577f2a97b72600908c3f95f9912f7013f1a84f32

Aliases

arxiv: 1706.06527 · arxiv_version: 1706.06527v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1706.06527 · pith_short_12: ML7QRFMWFJCJ · pith_short_16: ML7QRFMWFJCJCBMU · pith_short_8: ML7QRFMW

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/ML7QRFMWFJCJCBMU5QNVO7ZKS6 \
  | 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: 62ff0895962a44910594ec1b577f2a97b72600908c3f95f9912f7013f1a84f32

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "007e16c82ba28ee242fffd35f7855e561b5e08764b00793537c2f200121dbc08",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2017-06-20T15:54:34Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "71a548803dff7411c23977dc5400b055d29118566c7779f22766633a7ec17e9a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1706.06527",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}