Pith Number

pith:W6JK7UQA

pith:2017:W6JK7UQA2TO26I5OOQMGDIB33M

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Conversational Exploratory Search via Interactive Storytelling

Ilya Markov, Maarten de Rijke, Svitlana Vakulenko

arxiv:1709.05298 v1 · 2017-09-15 · cs.HC · cs.IR

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{W6JK7UQA2TO26I5OOQMGDIB33M}

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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	2026-05-18T00:35:06.063361Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b792afd200d4ddaf23ae741861a03bdb164f1d93b2cd5eebcd4c892ca4b2bf48

Aliases

arxiv: 1709.05298 · arxiv_version: 1709.05298v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1709.05298 · pith_short_12: W6JK7UQA2TO2 · pith_short_16: W6JK7UQA2TO26I5O · pith_short_8: W6JK7UQA

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/W6JK7UQA2TO26I5OOQMGDIB33M \
  | 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: b792afd200d4ddaf23ae741861a03bdb164f1d93b2cd5eebcd4c892ca4b2bf48

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "db7f6816e49b001d2aeac8cd91490538729414a822e2934c48feecda6dc06854",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.HC",
    "submitted_at": "2017-09-15T16:42:17Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "73f2d8ce539f2b6ab065451a5ddd34ae65fef481556f698ce7347ca3ba6dbea2"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1709.05298",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}