This document discusses an open source chatbot project called Linked Open Chatbots that was developed for the city of Ghent, Belgium. The chatbot aims to provide information about events, apps, and technology related to Ghent using linked open data. It encourages opening data to benefit both people and future applications, and demonstrates how live applications can be built using linked open data through a GitHub repository and demo of the chatbot.
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Vind plaats in 2011, nog geen dataportaal , maar eerder datasets
2012 datatank - toeristische data
2013 openen data gentse feesten / gis
Later ook de bibdata
Now from space
Tech evolved as well
We started with hosting csv/xml files
There is nothing wrong with these files
Which is also basically hosting json / xml files
Hot weather with stormy nights:
We also released the program via datatanks as jsn/xml
Get alot of teams with competitive offers.
Digipolis bougth an app, and several other pârties did as well.
The app craze was in full steam ahead
Many interested parties, tough competiton.
App building is *hard*.
The community apps where better.
So there you go.
So json was the way to go,
Went easy..
People input events - website - datatank - appdev - end user
Also for the developer . make a big join query over all the things and dump it
It worked , but in a sucky way.
All or nothing , slow ;
Do you want to build an app ?
Is this the best way to serve everybody
Ids you want to reach people, mobile and accesible websites
Building apps is hard; So by 2015, we didn’t bother anymore.
Which was good, if the community builds apps we don’t have to anymore.
This really was a nice position.
We kept focussing on open data, app builders updated their apps
VErschil:
Apps don’t have to write a specifice parsers
Links data and meaning
Data can be queried as a whole or in part
You stay reference of data
You are responsible your the information you provide
Provide a clear place to put your information, update it in the same spot
Different builders, different approach:
Download all
Provide updates
No-one proxied
So Ghent couldn’t stay behind
Publishing data as linked open data
Started with a new platform as a triplestore
-published all articles as linked open data
That’s why you need a good pipeline .
GF as linked open data
It’s not a technology problem
Taxonomy , organisation
We still published the json, but the had references to the linked data as well
Published as lod and jsons
While in the json times the dev just pulled a report, he now has to think about how to organise and structure the data.
Stateless...
Ths bot is stateless
Ran for whole period without glitch 3.5 k users
Uses buttons . no natural language
I’m an old guy.
OPEN GOVERNMENT AND NETWORKED EUROPEAN DEMOCRACY
These people aren’t coming to visit our open data portal.
Machine intelligence is growing , a lot of them are allready mining wikidata.