Pith Number

pith:XK5SQVYN

pith:2017:XK5SQVYNGV45UVCAHVPHSXBJAE

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Contextualization of topics: Browsing through the universe of bibliographic information

Andrea Scharnhorst, Rob Koopman, Shenghui Wang

arxiv:1702.08210 v1 · 2017-02-27 · cs.DL

Open paper page JSON Open Graph Bundle Merged state Verified badge What is a Pith Number?

Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XK5SQVYNGV45UVCAHVPHSXBJAE}

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Record completeness

1 Bitcoin timestamp

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	2026-05-18T00:49:55.580868Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

babb28570d3579da54403d5e795c29013a247cf09affbf5586ae2664a4b6e4ed

Aliases

arxiv: 1702.08210 · arxiv_version: 1702.08210v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1702.08210 · pith_short_12: XK5SQVYNGV45 · pith_short_16: XK5SQVYNGV45UVCA · pith_short_8: XK5SQVYN

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/XK5SQVYNGV45UVCAHVPHSXBJAE \
  | 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: babb28570d3579da54403d5e795c29013a247cf09affbf5586ae2664a4b6e4ed

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "fc9ad4ad63d098039986cf2e69b21388aa7810bb0014a275cb5c4bbc8a6e515e",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DL",
    "submitted_at": "2017-02-27T10:01:08Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "d93a27285f72b7a8fe047ac08b903ff10ca61b7197b45576692e49aea34e2188"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1702.08210",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}