Pith Number

pith:RYPLVEZF

pith:2016:RYPLVEZFIFH555TXJKCJ3ZRWN2

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Capturing the "Whole Tale" of Computational Research: Reproducibility in Computing Environments

Bertram Ludaescher, Jaroslaw Nabrzyski, Kyle Chard, Matthew B. Jones, Matthew Turk, Niall Gaffney, Victoria Stodden

arxiv:1610.09958 v1 · 2016-10-28 · cs.DL

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RYPLVEZFIFH555TXJKCJ3ZRWN2}

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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	2026-05-18T01:00:46.843550Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e1eba9325414fdef6774a849de6366e9b3d5ca64c43a81faedd2d65ad1e7522

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.09958 · arxiv_version: 1610.09958v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.09958 · pith_short_12: RYPLVEZFIFH5 · pith_short_16: RYPLVEZFIFH555TX · pith_short_8: RYPLVEZF

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/RYPLVEZFIFH555TXJKCJ3ZRWN2 \
  | 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: 8e1eba9325414fdef6774a849de6366e9b3d5ca64c43a81faedd2d65ad1e7522

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "79ae888e7188973362e2c389bbddbc474d3c874c9194a44ea15531c498afd00d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-28T18:29:35Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "47b16f3bd963661c7ea3323fbcf2d996024e1933251ba77cbdf0b62ed837ab02"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.09958",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}