Pith Number

pith:YHHTHBHX

pith:2016:YHHTHBHXLEK4EONSCXFG3KPD34

not attested not anchored not stored refs pending

Preserving the value of large scale data analytics over time through selective re-computation

Jacek Cala, Maisha Rathi, Paolo Missier

arxiv:1610.04752 v1 · 2016-10-15 · cs.DB

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{YHHTHBHXLEK4EONSCXFG3KPD34}

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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	2026-05-18T01:02:07.188515Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

c1cf3384f75915c239b215ca6da9e3df027ff0f5e6ddb732ebd145b76bfe3849

Aliases

arxiv: 1610.04752 · arxiv_version: 1610.04752v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1610.04752 · pith_short_12: YHHTHBHXLEK4 · pith_short_16: YHHTHBHXLEK4EONS · pith_short_8: YHHTHBHX

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/YHHTHBHXLEK4EONSCXFG3KPD34 \
  | 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: c1cf3384f75915c239b215ca6da9e3df027ff0f5e6ddb732ebd145b76bfe3849

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "0f3eea68fadea2975f017dd50fe09eb2f0d265241b06ba705e4be31bc10a854f",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.DB",
    "submitted_at": "2016-10-15T16:08:22Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "05b03af8aa143d59a016b6faa67c8d48192228088c116c7c85ea2480b24a430f"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1610.04752",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}