Getting Started

RECAP captures experimental provenance through resources, process templates, and process runs. Start with the local workflow, then use the remote workflow when a RECAP server owns the database.

Find the right documentation

RECAP documentation is organized around four complementary ways to use the documentation:

• Getting Started provides guided lessons for learning RECAP by doing. Begin with Complete Provenance Workflow, then use the shorter Quick Start: Create and Store Data Locally when you need a task recipe.
• How-To Guides provide focused procedures for users who need to complete a specific task. Use How-To Guides for templates, servers, queries, authentication, and provenance operations.
• Explanation describes how RECAP works and why its architecture matters. Read Explanation when you need concepts before choosing an implementation approach.
• Tutorials show complete domain workflows from setup through working code. Browse Tutorials when you want a guided path.
• Reference lists generated public APIs, schemas, query families, and builder methods. Browse API Reference for exact signatures and model fields.

Choose a workflow

• Quick start: create and store data locally with SQLite.
• Use a remote RECAP server with REST query/read and command transports. Requests use ordinary JSON; local and remote QueryDSL, canonical identity, and load-aware models remain aligned.