Pith Number

pith:XK6GBVOZ

pith:2026:XK6GBVOZPPVEGWRJVJFA4NMUCN

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The Shape of Testimony: A Scalable Framework for Oral History Archive Comparison

Amit Pinchevski, Itamar Trainin, Renana Keydar

arxiv:2605.21623 v1 · 2026-05-20 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XK6GBVOZPPVEGWRJVJFA4NMUCN}

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Record completeness

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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	2026-05-22T01:03:25.848651Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

babc60d5d97bea435a29aa4a0e3594135a772a0ce5557268cb92bbfef53f36c5

Aliases

arxiv: 2605.21623 · arxiv_version: 2605.21623v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2605.21623 · pith_short_12: XK6GBVOZPPVE · pith_short_16: XK6GBVOZPPVEGWRJ · pith_short_8: XK6GBVOZ

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/XK6GBVOZPPVEGWRJVJFA4NMUCN \
  | 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: babc60d5d97bea435a29aa4a0e3594135a772a0ce5557268cb92bbfef53f36c5

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "b84709348ba38c87fedbbea780bffde4ebc009799544cfd188817ce2bf2c591b",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2026-05-20T18:36:33Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "40cb8cf0d5db5ec8c8d9f790f856d7cd41dcc63c49aefebdee9ea4b935a81ad1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2605.21623",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}