Pith Number

pith:SYVNLW3B

pith:2016:SYVNLW3BNLLIWIKPJQ2FTVASYS

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

A Web API ecosystem through feature-based reuse

Michel Dumontier, Ruben Verborgh

arxiv:1609.07108 v3 · 2016-09-22 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{SYVNLW3BNLLIWIKPJQ2FTVASYS}

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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	2026-05-18T00:21:29.179648Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

962ad5db616ad68b214f4c3459d412c4a30917a5c4413c5d99c6b2ab5b9e3aea

Aliases

arxiv: 1609.07108 · arxiv_version: 1609.07108v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1609.07108 · pith_short_12: SYVNLW3BNLLI · pith_short_16: SYVNLW3BNLLIWIKP · pith_short_8: SYVNLW3B

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/SYVNLW3BNLLIWIKPJQ2FTVASYS \
  | 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: 962ad5db616ad68b214f4c3459d412c4a30917a5c4413c5d99c6b2ab5b9e3aea

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "c13e97587a620f4789654d3b79ad6c6298d4d96adf0a5d3c324f4dee1818d51d",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2016-09-22T18:54:41Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "f46baa2019468341df2b3e75099565bc729acc6dbc71919f62e845c985b5da41"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1609.07108",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}