Pith Number

pith:N23CZ2A5

pith:2019:N23CZ2A5XX5YVO3Y3MTS62BMWZ

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Towards a computer-interpretable actionable formal model to encode data governance rules

Malcolm Atkinson, Rui Zhao

arxiv:1911.08439 v1 · 2019-11-19 · cs.AI

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Add to your LaTeX paper

\usepackage{pith}
\pithnumber{N23CZ2A5XX5YVO3Y3MTS62BMWZ}

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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	2026-07-05T00:20:28.763640Z
Builder	pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1
Signature	Pith Ed25519 (`pith-v1-2026-05`) · public key
Schema	pith-number/v1.0

Canonical hash

6eb62ce81dbdfb8abb78db272f682cb65e3c67dfcaa3dca806a0b4bc888451d7

Aliases

arxiv: 1911.08439 · arxiv_version: 1911.08439v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.1911.08439 · pith_short_12: N23CZ2A5XX5Y · pith_short_16: N23CZ2A5XX5YVO3Y · pith_short_8: N23CZ2A5

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/N23CZ2A5XX5YVO3Y3MTS62BMWZ \
  | 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: 6eb62ce81dbdfb8abb78db272f682cb65e3c67dfcaa3dca806a0b4bc888451d7

Canonical record JSON

{
  "metadata": {
    "abstract_canon_sha256": "426a1a864114a7dd8257d4c6124d5226302977dc258a921c822f2a259ecd4cc5",
    "cross_cats_sorted": [],
    "license": "http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/",
    "primary_cat": "cs.AI",
    "submitted_at": "2019-11-19T18:02:52Z",
    "title_canon_sha256": "8e895ab7561f8223291609ab5e68bbe18e88527600cbe990660a58c58ff8aa55"
  },
  "schema_version": "1.0",
  "source": {
    "id": "1911.08439",
    "kind": "arxiv",
    "version": 1
  }
}