Pith Number

pith:WVKVMPSK

pith:2018:WVKVMPSKYCM6N7EOZX4IVOPSTW

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Decision-support for the Masses by Enabling Conversations with Open Data

Biplav Srivastava

arxiv:1809.06723 v2 · 2018-09-16 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{WVKVMPSKYCM6N7EOZX4IVOPSTW}

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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	2026-05-17T23:56:33.525030Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b555563e4ac099e6fc8ecdf88ab9f29da7d3ef3dc0767919ed6c471eed13e5ba

Aliases

arxiv: 1809.06723 · arxiv_version: 1809.06723v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1809.06723 · pith_short_12: WVKVMPSKYCM6 · pith_short_16: WVKVMPSKYCM6N7EO · pith_short_8: WVKVMPSK

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/WVKVMPSKYCM6N7EOZX4IVOPSTW \
  | 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: b555563e4ac099e6fc8ecdf88ab9f29da7d3ef3dc0767919ed6c471eed13e5ba

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "7aab32a71598102f950bcf97abf164f692ff32c5285a936b08ea789944355843",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2018-09-16T17:59:43Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "39ed253c592e76dad32847a1920a6d916c92d4f4ad84b987be6ee3faaf5b8dec"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1809.06723",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}