Pith Number

pith:S7NJXL6U

pith:2025:S7NJXL6UISMAX2PC763K6RLIV6

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Artifact Sharing for Information Retrieval Research

Sean MacAvaney

arxiv:2505.05434 v1 · 2025-05-08 · cs.IR

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

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{S7NJXL6UISMAX2PC763K6RLIV6}

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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	2026-07-05T11:00:24.333954Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

97da9bafd444980be9e2ffb6af4568af9745cf78a1b95cd6feb5cc3de9581b00

Aliases

arxiv: 2505.05434 · arxiv_version: 2505.05434v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2505.05434 · pith_short_12: S7NJXL6UISMA · pith_short_16: S7NJXL6UISMAX2PC · pith_short_8: S7NJXL6U

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/S7NJXL6UISMAX2PC763K6RLIV6 \
  | 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: 97da9bafd444980be9e2ffb6af4568af9745cf78a1b95cd6feb5cc3de9581b00

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "dcf27d6d62b8e1716a4c829b7f3b9b1625f04f8207b4159875196289f6d22961",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.IR",
    "submitted_at": "2025-05-08T17:23:32Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "cd15e828ad26b0fc73010be5508765ebfcb25a0c33fb13b33a9771c3fbb5f310"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2505.05434",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}