Pith Number

pith:XOYXVKUC

pith:2026:XOYXVKUCTMNNX5EJD7UNYUDHMC

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HistoRAG: Embedding Historical Methodology in Retrieval-Augmented Generation Through Critical Technical Practice

Noah J. Kim-Baumann, Torsten Hiltmann

arxiv:2606.18103 v1 · 2026-06-16 · cs.CL · cs.IR

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\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{XOYXVKUCTMNNX5EJD7UNYUDHMC}

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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.

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First computed	2026-06-19T16:10:48.549293Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

bbb17aaa829b1adbf4891fe8dc506760964a5d6e47a099c7a85a1c188a7bef7a

Aliases

arxiv: 2606.18103 · arxiv_version: 2606.18103v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2606.18103 · pith_short_12: XOYXVKUCTMNN · pith_short_16: XOYXVKUCTMNNX5EJ · pith_short_8: XOYXVKUC

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Resolver JSON Graph JSON Events JSON Schema Signing key

Verify this Pith Number yourself

curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/XOYXVKUCTMNNX5EJD7UNYUDHMC \
  | 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: bbb17aaa829b1adbf4891fe8dc506760964a5d6e47a099c7a85a1c188a7bef7a

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "de77191e6ff79475ba10ca3e3443722b6822725382ab19b2fe22e92f6d7ea822",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [
      "cs.IR"
    ],
    "license": "http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.CL",
    "submitted_at": "2026-06-16T16:03:37Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "aa79d0390ad86679b4245589cc7daef51a7b50a9598c5ea3eb1535d030a8034a"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "2606.18103",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}