Pith Number

pith:RNTDG6SE

pith:2009:RNTDG6SETWYN3WJZBTMIJHTLXS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Believe It or Not: Adding Belief Annotations to Databases

Dan Suciu, Magdalena Balazinska, Nodira Khoussainova, Wolfgang Gatterbauer

arxiv:0912.5241 v1 · 2009-12-30 · cs.DB · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RNTDG6SETWYN3WJZBTMIJHTLXS}

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Record completeness

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2 Internet Archive

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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	2026-05-18T01:04:59.280192Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8b66337a449db0ddd9390cd8849e6bbca59f9a73e6550ed63843571d234e1d5a

Aliases

arxiv: 0912.5241 · arxiv_version: 0912.5241v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.0912.5241 · pith_short_12: RNTDG6SETWYN · pith_short_16: RNTDG6SETWYN3WJZ · pith_short_8: RNTDG6SE

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/RNTDG6SETWYN3WJZBTMIJHTLXS \
  | 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: 8b66337a449db0ddd9390cd8849e6bbca59f9a73e6550ed63843571d234e1d5a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "13449000c3d2a2ab7d9cef6e35219cc20c5ad702981120b6e940978649d9a538",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2009-12-30T18:36:21Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ebac06bfa29a3db58845815d2b3b7c68cd960ad8eb2add00afc435de4fba441e"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "0912.5241",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}