Pith Number

pith:XNWAM2VS

pith:2012:XNWAM2VSW57FMMZR36SN67H5HC

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Collective Creativity: Where we are and where we might go

Jeffrey V. Nickerson, Lixiu Yu, Yasuaki Sakamoto

arxiv:1204.3890 v1 · 2012-04-17 · cs.SI · cs.HC

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XNWAM2VSW57FMMZR36SN67H5HC}

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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	2026-05-18T03:57:38.384531Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bb6c066ab2b77e563331dfa4df7cfd38bc538261c388ea0ebac369558107b915

Aliases

arxiv: 1204.3890 · arxiv_version: 1204.3890v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1204.3890 · pith_short_12: XNWAM2VSW57F · pith_short_16: XNWAM2VSW57FMMZR · pith_short_8: XNWAM2VS

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/XNWAM2VSW57FMMZR36SN67H5HC \
  | 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: bb6c066ab2b77e563331dfa4df7cfd38bc538261c388ea0ebac369558107b915

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "1a76f8f13a6386caf1a21fc674c5187811f0b25726825475895c4d1130ef0448",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.HC"
    ],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.SI",
    "submitted_at": "2012-04-17T01:50:06Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "83fdc5e6d16068ca5375e3097b785dc7ae3a66cde6a476acaef2c4911c2960e1"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1204.3890",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}