Pith Number

pith:R2BYANFH

pith:2016:R2BYANFHGTYVBYNKTY3GV22NYR

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Crowdsourced science: sociotechnical epistemology in the e-research paradigm

David Watson, Luciano Floridi

arxiv:1610.09485 v1 · 2016-10-29 · stat.AP · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{R2BYANFHGTYVBYNKTY3GV22NYR}

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4 Citations open

5 Replications open

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:51.897899Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e838034a734f150e1aa9e366aeb4dc44161febc85ad52d3caaeb36015681390

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09485 · arxiv_version: 1610.09485v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09485 · pith_short_12: R2BYANFHGTYV · pith_short_16: R2BYANFHGTYVBYNK · pith_short_8: R2BYANFH

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/R2BYANFHGTYVBYNKTY3GV22NYR \
  | 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: 8e838034a734f150e1aa9e366aeb4dc44161febc85ad52d3caaeb36015681390

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "a29b5ae6de8cb78f28cbb5430d3b1b10f7dab2463dfe0f78294e87f32c924ef0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.AP",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-29T10:51:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "3ee7f23e2beca4043ae36aa1bca73c98fd1cbbecb2a8c21b8a1f986c67e65c43"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09485",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}