Pith Number

pith:VET6AXTK

pith:2025:VET6AXTKWJOSMHCBELZMKZCOOF

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Qualitative Research Methods in Software Engineering: Past, Present, and Future

Carolyn Seaman, Rashina Hoda, Robert Feldt

arxiv:2502.07220 v1 · 2025-02-11 · cs.SE

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{VET6AXTKWJOSMHCBELZMKZCOOF}

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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.

Receipt and verification

First computed	2026-07-05T10:12:34.407639Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

a927e05e6ab25d261c4122f2c5644e7151b44db5e9b758b023e03a48a495cba3

Aliases

arxiv: 2502.07220 · arxiv_version: 2502.07220v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.07220 · pith_short_12: VET6AXTKWJOS · pith_short_16: VET6AXTKWJOSMHCB · pith_short_8: VET6AXTK

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Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/VET6AXTKWJOSMHCBELZMKZCOOF \
  | 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: a927e05e6ab25d261c4122f2c5644e7151b44db5e9b758b023e03a48a495cba3

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "65bbaad00efdb9ca7c6beabf6baae67cf6fadd0b0d7e4845db48003a77dc9c76",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SE",
    "submitted_at": "2025-02-11T03:25:58Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "9c4c9b409b48c093ec9ba8ed0e27bdde3b7b21d2b482d1a1c405f8a9df3cd2e7"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2502.07220",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}