Pith Number

pith:Q2MBTKX4

pith:2014:Q2MBTKX4OHDMSKQZMBBVCY5BEZ

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Towards a Virtual Data Centre for Classics

Mark Hedges, Tobias Blanke

arxiv:1410.7758 v1 · 2014-10-28 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{Q2MBTKX4OHDMSKQZMBBVCY5BEZ}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T02:39:09.474191Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

869819aafc71c6c92a1960435163a126669da4174087877c5fb34d7b896258f5

Aliases

arxiv: 1410.7758 · arxiv_version: 1410.7758v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1410.7758 · pith_short_12: Q2MBTKX4OHDM · pith_short_16: Q2MBTKX4OHDMSKQZ · pith_short_8: Q2MBTKX4

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/Q2MBTKX4OHDMSKQZMBBVCY5BEZ \
  | 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: 869819aafc71c6c92a1960435163a126669da4174087877c5fb34d7b896258f5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "62a05ef4b1e8e3b11281b8cc3b46bc19c280da826f37cc6cd64c9f67710de7e1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2014-10-28T19:25:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "31144f3f6a2f13f09caf3dab031731685e91b7df8c854f9557bf19234b105314"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1410.7758",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}