Pith Number

pith:BT6VDCA3

pith:2015:BT6VDCA3QQNL32BMRHEWCGCQZ5

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Large-scale Biological Meta-database Management

Edvard Pedersen, Lars Ailo Bongo

arxiv:1503.07759 v3 · 2015-03-26 · cs.DC · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{BT6VDCA3QQNL32BMRHEWCGCQZ5}

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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	2026-05-18T00:24:54.618490Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

0cfd51881b841abde82c89c9611850cf48f2f0f65c801baf46f3ca476a8a265e

Aliases

arxiv: 1503.07759 · arxiv_version: 1503.07759v3 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1503.07759 · pith_short_12: BT6VDCA3QQNL · pith_short_16: BT6VDCA3QQNL32BM · pith_short_8: BT6VDCA3

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/BT6VDCA3QQNL32BMRHEWCGCQZ5 \
  | 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: 0cfd51881b841abde82c89c9611850cf48f2f0f65c801baf46f3ca476a8a265e

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "4d75b384dd7d3c3a5f47474ef24982208571da445eeaadd2da03ee5243932713",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.DB"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DC",
    "submitted_at": "2015-03-26T15:07:16Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "db34a2219b77e310421f63459e9207300b11adfa382544eb56ef7db19b44de92"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1503.07759",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 3
  }
}