Pith Number

pith:YHMMYO4H

pith:2021:YHMMYO4HTSC5ALAYENFO4VULRJ

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Continuous Transition in Outsourcing: A Case Study

Bilal Raza, Stephen G. MacDonell, Tony Clear

arxiv:2104.05199 v1 · 2021-04-12 · cs.SE

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHMMYO4HTSC5ALAYENFO4VULRJ}

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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	2026-07-05T02:31:09.414838Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1d8cc3b879c85d02c18234aee568b8a538f50bb55c1a6d820235e3587fd57f3

Aliases

arxiv: 2104.05199 · arxiv_version: 2104.05199v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2104.05199 · pith_short_12: YHMMYO4HTSC5 · pith_short_16: YHMMYO4HTSC5ALAY · pith_short_8: YHMMYO4H

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/YHMMYO4HTSC5ALAYENFO4VULRJ \
  | 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: c1d8cc3b879c85d02c18234aee568b8a538f50bb55c1a6d820235e3587fd57f3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "ffbda88bd3641b37a8888babbb692aa10545dd35d7c225f25387b92f657adab1",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2021-04-12T04:37:38Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "2cb80e45fb1ad9f97070318fd0c4dd9ee4b29205bfa86ba6d9b0f1a024b5ed13"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2104.05199",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}