Pith Number

pith:XB2RXBEY

pith:2026:XB2RXBEYS3U5FI3CM7OJBDPIAK

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

What Went Wrong with Data Lakes? A 15-Year Reality Check from the Field

Youssef Gahi

arxiv:2606.08266 v1 · 2026-06-06 · cs.ET

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XB2RXBEYS3U5FI3CM7OJBDPIAK}

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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	2026-06-09T01:05:31.785531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

b8751b849896e9d2a36267dc908de8029b7c2145828a5ec3d8d1a6c6b1671947

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.08266 · arxiv_version: 2606.08266v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.08266 · pith_short_12: XB2RXBEYS3U5 · pith_short_16: XB2RXBEYS3U5FI3C · pith_short_8: XB2RXBEY

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/XB2RXBEYS3U5FI3CM7OJBDPIAK \
  | 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: b8751b849896e9d2a36267dc908de8029b7c2145828a5ec3d8d1a6c6b1671947

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "f7c055c6d58c8b39bba0c8a1be81d9222b0fd67eed9dcf5791a1e87f1e8387c0",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.ET",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-06T17:24:19Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "162bd0b0603875c590f63fa19d5ba74b61ec23e020e93be9d72bb7fd41d63490"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.08266",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}