Pith Number

pith:S42X6KXJ

pith:2017:S42X6KXJEDZUYSXPJ4DMBUNZTR

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Sensitive and Scalable Online Evaluation with Theoretical Guarantees

Harrie Oosterhuis, Maarten de Rijke

arxiv:1711.09454 v1 · 2017-11-26 · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S42X6KXJEDZUYSXPJ4DMBUNZTR}

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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	2026-05-18T00:29:35.511599Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97357f2ae920f34c4aef4f06c0d1b99c480560f0340b612749d3a77284a8ea39

Aliases

arxiv: 1711.09454 · arxiv_version: 1711.09454v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1711.09454 · pith_short_12: S42X6KXJEDZU · pith_short_16: S42X6KXJEDZUYSXP · pith_short_8: S42X6KXJ

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/S42X6KXJEDZUYSXPJ4DMBUNZTR \
  | 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: 97357f2ae920f34c4aef4f06c0d1b99c480560f0340b612749d3a77284a8ea39

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "16c2d29fdf196052bffaaeefc51a7c6c978f03a29586cadfd51be79df0316bfc",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2017-11-26T20:40:57Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "68b6f61e1e8a464147a4cd6b7aad4f7f37810301065775983b7cb994a3f187ab"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1711.09454",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}