What if you could search & cook recipes from 50 years ago? And what kinds of research could we do with a dataset of historical recipes? With Melvin Wevers, Richard Zijdeman, and Marieke van Erp, I participated in the HackaLOD 2018 challenge. Together, we had 24 hours to ‘hack’ together a prototype using linked and open data. We created ‘Jamie LOD-iver’, a tool to search historical recipes.
Our entry linked together historical newspaper articles with recipes from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, images from Wikimedia and various other sources. I was responsible for UX design, quickly creating the web application and visualizing the data. In the end, we were happy to see that Jamie LOD-iver won the HackaLOD 2018!
Jamie LOD-iver allows users to search historical recipes 
Various interactive visualizations facilitate exploration 
Historical newspaper articles are combined with Rijksmuseum and Wikimedia images 
The jury prize of HackaLOD 2018 (photo: hackalod.com)
Read more:
- Wevers, M., van Erp, M., Huurdeman, H., & Zijdeman, R. L. (2018). Jamie LOD-iver: Enriching Historical Recipes with Linked Open Data. DHBenelux Conference 2018, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
- Erp, M., Wevers, M., & Huurdeman, H. (2018). Constructing a Recipe Web from Historical Newspapers. In: The Semantic Web – ISWC 2018 (pp. 217–232).