Final presentation in the project seminar “Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld“

The project seminar ‘Retrieval Augmented Generation at the City of Krefeld’ ends with the presentation of the results of all seven students.
The goal of the project seminar, which focused on the integration of documents from the decentralised and separate wikis and the transfer of the intranet into an AI-supported knowledge management system using the Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) system, was achieved. From now on, contextualised answers will be possible and internal data sources of the city of Krefeld will be used that are not available to public GenAI models.
In the final presentation, the students explained the technical, organisational and legal challenges of the project to those present - including Mr Baumann from the City of Krefeld as well as Prof. Tobias Brandt and Niklas Korte (Chair of Digital Innovation and the Public Sector) - and presented the functioning prototype (a RAG prototype), which combines its own LLM with an efficient retrieval system. Important milestones included the implementation of a web crawler for data updating, the optimisation of retrieval and the solution of technical hurdles, such as the integration of the system into the IT infrastructure of the city administration.
The presentation was followed by a discussion on the future use of the developed prototype and possible further developments. In particular, the potential of the solution for other municipal applications was discussed.