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In this article Kevin Fitchard confronts the negative aspects in collaborating recipes online and explains the specific problems in applications made for recipe sharing. For instance, a recipe library and cooking forum called KeepRecipes is easily accessible when a person wants to share a recipe, but has a weak scraping function. Moreover, other applications such as MacGourmet and Paprika require users to pay instead of allowing free access. Fitchard also argues that there are too many recipe databases competing with each other, which at the end, is quite similar to having too many cookbooks in one bookshelf. For Fitchard, recipe sharing online needs many improvements.

This article shows how creating an archive is kind of like baking a cake. First she says to identify your craving of what you want and why. The next step is finding a recipe that you have carefully researched that shows step-by-step how to build an archive and acquire the ingredients. This can include government documents, treaties, historical and medical records, letters written by historical and literary figures, ect. After getting these ingredients you must translate, transcribe, and digitize them into the archive. She also requires you to establish an order of organization to allow teachers and researchers to use and search the archive. The final step is to share the archive with others.