Pith Number

pith:VDGEAWDX

pith:2026:VDGEAWDXIZWCBQYA2IUBGTYRSC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Making Sense of the Weather, Together: Collaborative Sensemaking in Severe Weather Livestreams

David W. McDonald, Julie A. Vera, Mark Zachry

arxiv:2605.16285 v1 · 2026-04-12 · cs.HC · cs.CY

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VDGEAWDXIZWCBQYA2IUBGTYRSC}

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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	2026-05-20T00:02:15.363101Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a8cc405877466c20c300d228134f119083b5f543559e75a5e2b17bf3182ed6e3

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.16285 · arxiv_version: 2605.16285v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.16285 · pith_short_12: VDGEAWDXIZWC · pith_short_16: VDGEAWDXIZWCBQYA · pith_short_8: VDGEAWDX

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/VDGEAWDXIZWCBQYA2IUBGTYRSC \
  | 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: a8cc405877466c20c300d228134f119083b5f543559e75a5e2b17bf3182ed6e3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "371d9e9fade11a786622bd826b833c8f0a53f5be3fe198693220975b07ef7831",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.CY"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2026-04-12T17:22:36Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "ff126aa81490bbdbef6f2b3b889984890c10f9a5c303202ba9e4106ecc4fd123"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.16285",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}