Pith Number

pith:U3NDDDD6

pith:2017:U3NDDDD6KNJMJUFT6STL7WV223

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Linking Administrative Data: An Evolutionary Schema

Allyson Seyb, Anders Holmberg, Jack Lothian

arxiv:1712.08522 v1 · 2017-12-20 · stat.ME

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{U3NDDDD6KNJMJUFT6STL7WV223}

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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	2026-05-18T00:27:23.162974Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a6da318c7e5352c4d0b3f4a6bfdabad6e7fdd0356bec743a834bb7cb5a57fac7

Aliases

arxiv: 1712.08522 · arxiv_version: 1712.08522v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1712.08522 · pith_short_12: U3NDDDD6KNJM · pith_short_16: U3NDDDD6KNJMJUFT · pith_short_8: U3NDDDD6

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/U3NDDDD6KNJMJUFT6STL7WV223 \
  | 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: a6da318c7e5352c4d0b3f4a6bfdabad6e7fdd0356bec743a834bb7cb5a57fac7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "2190683c59268dc526ad265d6a26a4a104096d71448ddc58af4ad4ab2b8fbbd2",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "stat.ME",
    "submitted_at": "2017-12-20T21:31:14Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "94179b4d0b28a75c1edf7cf7a446257a9b4542d8cd5f161295735aea827f0355"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1712.08522",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}