About Flow recipes

Flow recipes is a new way of thinking about recipes. A recipe is composed of short instructions where you have ingredients that are prepared by methods like cutting or baking. This basic idea is the core of flow recipes. It exists of a visual language to express this idea as-well-as a formal description to make recipes understandable by machines. This will make recipes easier to read, share and analyse. Apart from those benefits, the concepts behind flow recipes are used as an exemplar.

The four key benefits

which makes flow recipes worth trying.

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Flow is visual

using understandable flowcharts

Recipes are, in essence, short instructions which can be visualised. This idea is captured in the flow methodology

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Flow is formal

using open standards

Not only humans could understand flow recipes; machines understand them as-well. See flow ontologies for more information.

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flow is authentic

using persistent sources

Openness is great and even greater with some trustworthy and ownership. See the ingredients and methods schemes used in flow recipes

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Flow is tangible

using physical products

Flow cards are the incarnation of flow recipes. A piece of thick fine art paper printed with recipes.

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