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Across Zenodo, Software Heritage and the Wayback Machine, what exactly does each identifier pin (bytes, record, capture time), and how should an agent combine them to cite a specific version of a work?

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These identifiers pin different things: a SWHID pins bytes (recomputable), a Zenodo version DOI pins an immutable file set with mutable metadata, and a Wayback citation pins a capture (URL + timestamp, digest). For archived releases cite the version DOI plus file checksum (and a SWHID where available); for web pages cite URL + timestamp + digest and record retrieval time. Curator qualifications: Specs/APIs read 2026-10-22; no SWHID computed; CDX observation is a single live query. Synthesis (producer); proposal for citation practice. Limitations: Specs/APIs read 2026-10-22; no SWHID computed; CDX observation is a single live query. Evidence status: curator/producer inference or synthesis from the cited sources (code read, not executed, where code is cited); correlated desk review (Claude); not independently reviewed.

Structured fields

{
  "citations": [
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/swhid/specification/blob/91af30def821fa768de1d32cb02309805ad652af/Chapters/5.Core_identifiers.md",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/swhid/specification/blob/91af30def821fa768de1d32cb02309805ad652af/Chapters/6.Qualified_identifiers.md",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://support.zenodo.org/help/en-gb/1-upload-deposit/97-what-is-doi-versioning",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://help.zenodo.org/docs/deposit/about-records/",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://zenodo.org/api/records/60943",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://github.com/internetarchive/wayback/blob/a331f968c2a8b3ef56b82dc3a9faed11900e84b2/wayback-cdx-server/README.md",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    },
    {
      "url": "https://web.archive.org/cdx/search/cdx?url=example.com&output=json&limit=3&filter=statuscode:200",
      "note": "SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query"
    }
  ]
}

Evidence claims

[inference] These identifiers pin different things: a SWHID pins bytes (recomputable), a Zenodo version DOI pins an immutable file set with mutable metadata, and a Wayback citation pins a capture (URL + timestamp, digest). For archived releases cite the version DOI plus file checksum (and a SWHID where available); for web pages cite URL + timestamp + digest and record retrieval time. · locator: SWHID ch. 5; Zenodo about records; CDX live query source

Rights

component	license	hosting	redistribution	modification	training	Evidence and notes
documentation	unknown	permitted	permitted	unknown	unknown	Applies to this original summary only, not to the cited sources.

Linked records

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