recipesat

Recipesat is a collaborative project and online repository designed to store and share structured information about culinary recipes. It emphasizes interoperability and reuse by adopting open, machine-readable formats that describe ingredients, steps, nutrition, and metadata such as author, language, and licensing. The goal is to improve search accuracy, data portability, and educational value across cooking apps and websites.

Origins and scope: Recipesat emerged from open-data and open-knowledge movements seeking to unify recipe representations across platforms. It is community-driven, with contributors adding new recipes, correcting data, and proposing schema improvements. The project favors non-proprietary licenses to encourage reuse.

Data model and features: The core unit is the recipe, stored with fields such as title, author, published date, cuisine, course, diet tags, serves, prep and cook times, total time. Ingredients are modeled as a list of items with quantity and unit, optional notes, and substitutions. Steps are ordered text blocks. Additional data include nutrition facts, equipment, origin, language, and translations. The platform aligns with established schemas (for example schema.org Recipe) and supports export in JSON-LD, JSON, CSV, or RDF. An API enables programmatic search, retrieval, and contribution. Contributions carry provenance metadata and version history.

Governance and community: Contributions follow guidelines and licensing terms, with review workflows to maintain quality. The project encourages multilingual content and accessibility features, as well as references to source materials when available.

Impact and usage: Developers integrate recipesat data into apps, researchers analyze culinary trends, educators use the content to teach nutrition and cooking skills. While not tied to a single platform, recipesat aims to complement existing recipe sites by providing a standardized, open data layer.