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February 11, 2005
Carnival of the Recipes #26
Kris at Anywhere but Here is our Carnival of the Recipes #26 Hostess this week. Kris has a very artistic way of looking at food ( :
Speaking of the Carnival of the Recipes - several people have suggested that we somehow create a database of all the recipe entries (with the links to the orginal recipe or just to the blog, I'm not sure). Sounds like a good idea, but I need help doing it.
Do we copy all the recipes and put them in a database, or do we just put the links in a database, or what?
And what kind of front end would let people search our Carnival of the Recipes database for the type of food they are looking for?
And who has any idea how to do this? I figure the Carnival is a owned by everyone who has hosted or contributed to it, so I really do want your suggestions and your help.
Posted by Beth at February 11, 2005 4:38 PM
Comments
Maybe the way to do it would be to just have it as it's own site, say on blogger since the bandwidth is free, at least for the archives. Google already does site-specific searches on blogger. We could still do the pass-around hosting (everyone likes the free spike in traffic) and then each host could transfer their own carnival post to the archive as soon as the carnival comes up the next week.
Posted by: caltechgirl at February 11, 2005 8:31 PM
I don't have a suggestion for how to organize a database but if it would be of any help to whoever decides to do it, I've been putting a (non-linked) list of each week's recipes in the extended entries of my posts that link to the Carnival host. (I did this because I can remember that I saw a recipe, I just can't always remember where I saw it. This way I can use the blog search or "find on page" to aid my memory.)
Posted by: marybeth at February 12, 2005 4:25 PM
Actually that would be cool but I'd also like a list of who hosts it and how to get things posted. Mine got skipped this week (I sent it direct to you Beth? Did I get the wrong week?)
and its gets confusing...
Kevin
Posted by: Kevin at February 13, 2005 1:32 PM
It seems to me that there are at least three distinct issues: listing recipes, searching for recipes, and indexing recipes. One big alphabetic listing on a blog of its own would take care of the listing and searching component (sort of) if the blogging software had search capability.
But I can think of at least six indices that would be desireable (date, alphabetic, course, ingredients, contributor, ethnicity). Perhaps this could be accommodated by subject headings? It could get pretty hairy from an administrative standpoint.
It would be pretty easy to handle with PHP scripts and s MySQL database.
Posted by: Dave Schuler at February 19, 2005 5:00 PM