Pith Number

pith:VPXS6FC4

pith:2018:VPXS6FC4OIAMC6UDOLO2UZXHUD

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Utilizing Provenance in Reusable Research Objects

Dai Hai Ton That, Gabriel Fils, Siddhant Kothari, Tanu Malik, Zhihao Yuan

arxiv:1806.06452 v1 · 2018-06-17 · cs.DB · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VPXS6FC4OIAMC6UDOLO2UZXHUD}

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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	2026-05-18T00:13:02.335002Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

abef2f145c7200c17a8372ddaa66e7a0dd71c202e4517f045d788d1da6fcdf78

Aliases

arxiv: 1806.06452 · arxiv_version: 1806.06452v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1806.06452 · pith_short_12: VPXS6FC4OIAM · pith_short_16: VPXS6FC4OIAMC6UD · pith_short_8: VPXS6FC4

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/VPXS6FC4OIAMC6UDOLO2UZXHUD \
  | 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: abef2f145c7200c17a8372ddaa66e7a0dd71c202e4517f045d788d1da6fcdf78

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "cf27e57e65a30b224f6a7d27007c55153d8e904863ba2dfb4770b13cd0afe2e8",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DL"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2018-06-17T21:47:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "de3cbd9448f7e9e4fddeb40574a188ffb0c0b7edb4ad6820f83413a8fd9c4e3d"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1806.06452",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}