Together with my PhD students Damiaan Reijnaers and Maik Larooij and Jos Zuijderwijk, our muscle-for-hire from Utrecht University, the OpenGov team participated in the Terminal Woo hackathon. This hackathon was focused on the government’s side of the FOIA process, and aimed to result in tools that help civil servants respond to FOIA requests better and faster.
We didn’t win, but we did manage to push 80s IR methods (pseudo-relevance feedback) packaged in shiny LLMs and presented through a fancy interface to the hackathon community. Read the blog by Maik on opengov.nl for all details and more pictures!
Blog: https://www.opengov.nl/blog/2025/11/05/opengov-lab-at-the-hackaton-terminal-woo-zoek-en-verrijk