Pith Number

pith:BI4MKLXD

pith:2018:BI4MKLXDHEULYYBB5A3X7L6VTF

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A diachronic study of historiography

Giovanni Colavizza

arxiv:1807.01795 v2 · 2018-07-04 · cs.DL

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BI4MKLXDHEULYYBB5A3X7L6VTF}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-18T00:05:19.075749Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0a38c52ee33928bc6021e8377fafd5997d594296ba6bc7816284f00251454e91

Aliases

arxiv: 1807.01795 · arxiv_version: 1807.01795v2 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1807.01795 · pith_short_12: BI4MKLXDHEUL · pith_short_16: BI4MKLXDHEULYYBB · pith_short_8: BI4MKLXD

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/BI4MKLXDHEULYYBB5A3X7L6VTF \
  | 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: 0a38c52ee33928bc6021e8377fafd5997d594296ba6bc7816284f00251454e91

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "099fa04ca5b50ec94c94d3a455d7719ace54314f6aa0ffcebe4b08c415e1310f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2018-07-04T21:38:46Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "a4830aebcbe26bf22f7dc82d6ed1cad1df7ba58d824ae258c4a0fe88ea11f983"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1807.01795",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 2
  }
}