ICAI OpenGov Lab
@opengov.nl
Artificial Intelligence for Open Government Lab @uva.nl
Advancing AI (IR & NLP) to make open government data more accessible, transparent, and impactful.
#AI #OpenGov
https://opengov.nl
Advancing AI (IR & NLP) to make open government data more accessible, transparent, and impactful.
#AI #OpenGov
https://opengov.nl
You can now export your own datadumps from our #OpenGov search engine WooGLe, check out the writeup by @maiklarooij.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2026/01...
Curate and export your own WooGLe dataset! - ICAI OpenGov Lab - opengov.nl
It is now possible to curate and export your own WooGLe dataset!
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January 15, 2026 at 1:18 PM
You can now export your own datadumps from our #OpenGov search engine WooGLe, check out the writeup by @maiklarooij.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2026/01...
The tally for 2025 is done! We've gone from 4 to over 8 million documents indexed, from nearly 800 government bodies in WooGLe: our OpenGov search engine! Read more about what we added, and our plans for 2026! opengov.nl/blog/2026/01...
#opengov #opendata @maiklarooij.nl
#opengov #opendata @maiklarooij.nl
WooGLe keeps growing: 8 million documents! - ICAI OpenGov Lab - opengov.nl
WooGLe has doubled in size in 2025, now indexing over **8 million documents** across more than 90,000 dossiers from nearly 800 government bodies
opengov.nl
January 9, 2026 at 1:28 PM
The tally for 2025 is done! We've gone from 4 to over 8 million documents indexed, from nearly 800 government bodies in WooGLe: our OpenGov search engine! Read more about what we added, and our plans for 2026! opengov.nl/blog/2026/01...
#opengov #opendata @maiklarooij.nl
#opengov #opendata @maiklarooij.nl
Our lab manager @graus.nu is co-organizing the "AI and Open Government Workshop" at the 21st International Conference on AI and Law (ICAIL 2026), in Singapore 🇸🇬, June 8-12.
🔗 For more information, see: aiog.net / @aiog.net
#AI #OpenGov #FOIA #Law
🔗 For more information, see: aiog.net / @aiog.net
#AI #OpenGov #FOIA #Law
Excited to co-organize the AI & Open Government Workshop w/ @grahammcdonald.bsky.social and Jason R. Baron at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Law (ICAIL 2026), Singapore 🇸🇬 in June!
🦋 Follow @aiog.net to stay in the loop.
graus.nu/blog/ai-open...
#AI #OpenGov #Law
🦋 Follow @aiog.net to stay in the loop.
graus.nu/blog/ai-open...
#AI #OpenGov #Law
AI & Open Government Workshop at ICAIL 2026 • David Graus
Great news: our workshop proposal has been accepted at ICAIL 2026 in Singapore (June 8-12)! Together with Graham McDonald (University of Glasgow) and Jason R. Baron (University of Maryland), we’ll be ...
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January 9, 2026 at 7:29 AM
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Woohoo! Paper accepted to Findings at @ecir2026.eu! 🎉
We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹
Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl
We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹
Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl
December 16, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Woohoo! Paper accepted to Findings at @ecir2026.eu! 🎉
We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹
Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl
We use LLMs for axial coding of political debates, work led by Angelina Parfenova (TU Munich), who I met at last year's ECIR in Lucca 🇮🇹
Love it when conference chats turn into papers! #ECIR2026 @opengov.nl
Last month, the OpenGov Lab welcomed the AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social), with contributions from @graus.nu, @irisbeerepoot.bsky.social, @maiklarooij.nl!
Read more about our PhD meetup here: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
Read more about our PhD meetup here: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
Joint PhD Meetup with AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten - ICAI OpenGov Lab - opengov.nl
The OpenGov Lab hosted colleagues from Utrecht University's AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten at LAB42 for a collaborative PhD meetup, exploring shared research interests and planning future collaborat...
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December 15, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Last month, the OpenGov Lab welcomed the AI Lab voor de Publieke Diensten (@utrechtuniversity.bsky.social), with contributions from @graus.nu, @irisbeerepoot.bsky.social, @maiklarooij.nl!
Read more about our PhD meetup here: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
Read more about our PhD meetup here: opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
Congrats to Barbora Wenzlova for receiving the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2025 for her master thesis “Beyond Disclosure: Evaluating Algorithmic Transparency in the Dutch Algorithm Register”, supervised by @jkamps.bsky.social at the @opengov.nl lab: www.opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
November 17, 2025 at 1:16 PM
Congrats to Barbora Wenzlova for receiving the Victorine van Schaick Prize 2025 for her master thesis “Beyond Disclosure: Evaluating Algorithmic Transparency in the Dutch Algorithm Register”, supervised by @jkamps.bsky.social at the @opengov.nl lab: www.opengov.nl/blog/2025/11...
We joined the “Terminal Woo” hackathon at the Fokker Terminal with @opengov.nl; pitching an IR-inspired fix for a real problem in Dutch FOIA (Woo) search.
November 6, 2025 at 8:34 AM
We joined the “Terminal Woo” hackathon at the Fokker Terminal with @opengov.nl; pitching an IR-inspired fix for a real problem in Dutch FOIA (Woo) search.
We attended the @uva.nl thesis fairs! Read @maiklarooij.nl's writeup on @opengov.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...
November 3, 2025 at 9:13 PM
We attended the @uva.nl thesis fairs! Read @maiklarooij.nl's writeup on @opengov.nl: opengov.nl/blog/2025/10...
Students @uva.nl in #AI, #datascience, and computer science: come meet us at the (AI) Thesis Fairs this Friday, October 17th and talk about our #OpenGov MSc thesis projects! opengov.nl/events/2025/...
October 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Students @uva.nl in #AI, #datascience, and computer science: come meet us at the (AI) Thesis Fairs this Friday, October 17th and talk about our #OpenGov MSc thesis projects! opengov.nl/events/2025/...
Deze week namen Damiaan en @maiklarooij.nl van @opengov.nl mee aan de Democracy Accelerator ideathon van @openstate.eu en het Social Technology Lab.
🏆 "Quote of Context" gepitcht door @maiklarooij.nl en Arjan Haring werd democratisch verkozen tot het winnend idee:
www.linkedin.com/posts/opengo...
🏆 "Quote of Context" gepitcht door @maiklarooij.nl en Arjan Haring werd democratisch verkozen tot het winnend idee:
www.linkedin.com/posts/opengo...
Deze week namen Damiaan en Maik van het ICAI OpenGov Lab deel aan de "Democracy Accelerator", een ideathon georganiseerd door Open State Foundation en Social Technology Lab.
Eén van de proj...
Deze week namen Damiaan en Maik van het ICAI OpenGov Lab deel aan de "Democracy Accelerator", een ideathon georganiseerd door Open State Foundation en Social Technology Lab.
Eén van de projecten: “Qu...
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October 4, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Deze week namen Damiaan en @maiklarooij.nl van @opengov.nl mee aan de Democracy Accelerator ideathon van @openstate.eu en het Social Technology Lab.
🏆 "Quote of Context" gepitcht door @maiklarooij.nl en Arjan Haring werd democratisch verkozen tot het winnend idee:
www.linkedin.com/posts/opengo...
🏆 "Quote of Context" gepitcht door @maiklarooij.nl en Arjan Haring werd democratisch verkozen tot het winnend idee:
www.linkedin.com/posts/opengo...
Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.”
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
September 26, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Congrats to Floris Bos (not pictured), who won the Best Short Paper Award at #TPDL2025 (Tampere 🇫🇮) for his @opengov.nl MSc thesis “Linking References to Documents in Parliamentary Debates.”
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Paper co-authored with Marc van Opijnen & Maarten Marx (who received the award). #OpenGov
Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35
September 12, 2025 at 10:13 AM
Damiaan Reijnaers, PhD student in the @opengov.nl lab, presented his poster on neuro-symbolic legal document representations at @clin35-2025.bsky.social this morning! #OpenGov #CLIN35
Are you a final year master student in AI/Data Science in the greater Amsterdam area? Join us at the ICAI OpenGov Lab for your master thesis. Data and ideas abound!
See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻
See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻
With the start of the academic year I am looking for MSc (AI/Data Science) students with an interest in information retrieval and/or NLP for #OpenGov projects at the @opengov.nl lab! See a list here, or reach out if you have your own project ideas: graus.nu/blog/master-...
AI & Data Science MSc thesis projects at the ICAI OpenGov Lab • David Graus
As each year, I am looking for talented and driven master students to work on a variety of projects out of the ICAI OpenGov Lab. See the one-sentence summaries (provided by ChatGPT) of the project pro...
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September 1, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Are you a final year master student in AI/Data Science in the greater Amsterdam area? Join us at the ICAI OpenGov Lab for your master thesis. Data and ideas abound!
See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻
See a preliminary list of projects below or reach out with your own 👇🏻
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Vrijdag bezochten @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social TK-leden @barbarakathmann.bsky.social en @lucstultiens.bsky.social, en Amsterdams gemeenteraadslid @elisabethijmker.bsky.social, ons bij LAB42 (UvA). Damiaan Reijnaers en ik mochten ons ICAI @opengov.nl Lab presenteren: graus.nu/blog/opengov...
OpenGov meets Gov • David Graus
Afgelopen vrijdag bezochten Tweede Kamerleden Barbara Kathmann en Luc Stultiens van GroenLinks-PvdA, samen met beleidsmedewerker digitale zaken Tijmen de Vries en Amsterdams gemeenteraadslid Elisabeth...
graus.nu
June 23, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Vrijdag bezochten @groenlinks-pvda.bsky.social TK-leden @barbarakathmann.bsky.social en @lucstultiens.bsky.social, en Amsterdams gemeenteraadslid @elisabethijmker.bsky.social, ons bij LAB42 (UvA). Damiaan Reijnaers en ik mochten ons ICAI @opengov.nl Lab presenteren: graus.nu/blog/opengov...
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Volgende week vrijdag organiseren we onze jaarlijkse @opengov.nl Woorkshop. Waar een ~20-tal #AI, #DataScience, en Informatiekunde studenten die “wat spannends doen met de Woo” hun scripties presenteren!
13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom!
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13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom!
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UvA opengov ICAI lab Woorkshop 2025
27 juni 2025, 13:00, Lab 42, Zaal L.101, Science Park, Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom Elk jaar hebben Jaap Kamps, David Graus en Maarten Marx wel zo’n 20 afstudeerders die “wat span…
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June 19, 2025 at 8:27 AM
Volgende week vrijdag organiseren we onze jaarlijkse @opengov.nl Woorkshop. Waar een ~20-tal #AI, #DataScience, en Informatiekunde studenten die “wat spannends doen met de Woo” hun scripties presenteren!
13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom!
wooverheid.nl/2025/06/18/u...
13-17 uur, LAB42 in Amsterdam. Iedereen is welkom!
wooverheid.nl/2025/06/18/u...
News @uva.nl: “Many of the advances in IR and NLP can be directly applied to improving access and use of open government data,” says lab manager @graus.nu. “I believe these technologies can truly help create a more transparent government and a better-informed society.”
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
New AI Lab Makes Open Government Information Easier to Find and Understand
The University of Amsterdam (UvA) and the Government of the Netherlands (Rijksoverheid) have jointly launched the ICAI OpenGov Lab, a new AI research lab focused on Information Retrieval (IR) and Natu...
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May 29, 2025 at 7:35 AM
News @uva.nl: “Many of the advances in IR and NLP can be directly applied to improving access and use of open government data,” says lab manager @graus.nu. “I believe these technologies can truly help create a more transparent government and a better-informed society.”
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
www.uva.nl/en/shared-co...
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Morgen presenteren we het ICAI @opengov.nl Lab in Den Haag bij het Nationaal Archief. Leuk als je komt!
www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
Demo Donderdag: Overheidsinformatie ontketenen met AI? Maak kennis met het ICAI OpenGov Lab!
Het ICAI OpenGov Lab droomt over een betere vindbaarheid en bruikbaarheid van overheidsinformatie, met als doel meer overheidstransparantie, publiek vertrouwen en uiteindelijk democratische participat...
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May 14, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Morgen presenteren we het ICAI @opengov.nl Lab in Den Haag bij het Nationaal Archief. Leuk als je komt!
www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
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Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
May 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
May 8, 2025 at 5:50 AM
Op donderdag 15 mei presenteren @graus.nu, @jkamps.bsky.social, en Maarten Marx het ICAI OpenGov Lab op Demo Donderdag in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag! Start 16:00 uur. Aansluitend is er de open donderdag netwerkborrel. Meer info+ aanmelden: www.informatiehuishouding.nl/actueel/acti...
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Super excited about getting started! Follow @opengov.nl to stay tuned for our first papers and more. #OpenGov
May 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Super excited about getting started! Follow @opengov.nl to stay tuned for our first papers and more. #OpenGov
The ICAI OpenGov Lab is live!
We kicked off yesterday at LAB42 (UvA, Amsterdam). Our PhD candidates shared exciting research plans on AI, archives & disinfo, with valuable input from our partners at informatiehuishouding + ipartnerschap. More soon, follow us for updates!
#opengov #AI #NLP
We kicked off yesterday at LAB42 (UvA, Amsterdam). Our PhD candidates shared exciting research plans on AI, archives & disinfo, with valuable input from our partners at informatiehuishouding + ipartnerschap. More soon, follow us for updates!
#opengov #AI #NLP
May 7, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Happy birthday Woo (Wet Open Overheid - Dutch Open Government Act), since May 1st, 2022. 🕯️🕯️🕯️
May 1, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Happy birthday Woo (Wet Open Overheid - Dutch Open Government Act), since May 1st, 2022. 🕯️🕯️🕯️
Today, @anneschuth.nl (Rijks ICT Gilde) visited the @opengov.nl lab before his talk at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social (www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...), to explore collaboration with our PhD students Damiaan and Lisa, and catch up with @graus.nu and @jkamps.bsky.social. Great having you around, Anne!
April 25, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Today, @anneschuth.nl (Rijks ICT Gilde) visited the @opengov.nl lab before his talk at @irlab-amsterdam.bsky.social (www.meetup.com/sea-search-e...), to explore collaboration with our PhD students Damiaan and Lisa, and catch up with @graus.nu and @jkamps.bsky.social. Great having you around, Anne!