Pith Number

pith:WAW3DBJR

pith:2018:WAW3DBJRVQUD7EX7IEEJRZFMCX

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Decision Provenance: Harnessing data flow for accountable systems

Chris Norval, Jatinder Singh, Jennifer Cobbe

arxiv:1804.05741 v4 · 2018-04-16 · cs.CY · cs.AI

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WAW3DBJRVQUD7EX7IEEJRZFMCX}

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4 Citations open

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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.

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First computed	2026-07-05T00:19:17.825511Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b02db18531ac283f92ff410898e4ac15ec5f3d746c748d3ea0df826e7e7103bc

Aliases

arxiv: 1804.05741 · arxiv_version: 1804.05741v4 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1804.05741 · pith_short_12: WAW3DBJRVQUD · pith_short_16: WAW3DBJRVQUD7EX7 · pith_short_8: WAW3DBJR

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/WAW3DBJRVQUD7EX7IEEJRZFMCX \
  | 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: b02db18531ac283f92ff410898e4ac15ec5f3d746c748d3ea0df826e7e7103bc

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "665abd5e8e28d92753553ca6ca4e28593791e5cfe9d9c60d4b20cb21a3900f3b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.AI"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CY",
    "submitted_at": "2018-04-16T15:32:39Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "95bc5496db2b176292281542bff4a8d0c5b2d5838cd468df4dc66f90f2135b49"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1804.05741",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 4
  }
}