Pith Number

pith:R2B27J34

pith:2025:R2B27J343ADNLOHRNKWMRJOZBH

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Rethinking Dataset Discovery with DataScout

Aditya G. Parameswaran, Bhavya Chopra, Madelon Hulsebos, Rachel Lin, Shreya Shankar, Wenjing Lin

arxiv:2507.18971 v1 · 2025-07-25 · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2B27J343ADNLOHRNKWMRJOZBH}

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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	2026-07-05T11:43:17.193977Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e83afa77cd806d5b8f16aacc8a5d909efdd667187d1de3fc68e0110ff6d0b68

Aliases

arxiv: 2507.18971 · arxiv_version: 2507.18971v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.18971 · pith_short_12: R2B27J343ADN · pith_short_16: R2B27J343ADNLOHR · pith_short_8: R2B27J34

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/R2B27J343ADNLOHRNKWMRJOZBH \
  | 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: 8e83afa77cd806d5b8f16aacc8a5d909efdd667187d1de3fc68e0110ff6d0b68

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "642040e0ba7c71ac967c1c4edeb27e9ed9431e20a0748746c6a94b5dd72b55b5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2025-07-25T05:45:05Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9b3f8c4e2c701b34478638b0af4120b23315d749a246404972ccfb2a5c511526"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2507.18971",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}