Pith Number

pith:RZAV7XRN

pith:2018:RZAV7XRNWMRERAOTUDKDQ66UTY

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Framework for Aggregating Private and Public Web Archives

Mat Kelly, Michael L. Nelson, Michele C. Weigle

arxiv:1806.00871 v1 · 2018-06-03 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{RZAV7XRNWMRERAOTUDKDQ66UTY}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:14:18.170117Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

8e415fde2db3224881d3a0d4387bd49e25f811e9e1502da93ee19afc415c8f39

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.00871 · arxiv_version: 1806.00871v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.00871 · pith_short_12: RZAV7XRNWMRE · pith_short_16: RZAV7XRNWMRERAOT · pith_short_8: RZAV7XRN

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/RZAV7XRNWMRERAOTUDKDQ66UTY \
  | 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: 8e415fde2db3224881d3a0d4387bd49e25f811e9e1502da93ee19afc415c8f39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "710fc27abed8dce8a37e2029871a6a6e797f42a89f85c4d847672626ebd3a6cc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-03T20:30:09Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f5c07f882069d02aee95b37be2c8b85b5226dc57ada14a21662eb5b8b9c55fe6"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.00871",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}