D-BAS is a novel approach to online argumentation. It avoids the pitfalls of unstructured systems such as asynchronous threaded discussions and it is usable by any participant without training while still supporting the full complexity of real-world argumentation. The key idea is to let users exchange arguments with each other in the form of a time-shifted dialog where arguments are presented and acted upon one-at-a-time.
Currently, the main development-process happens in our GitLab instance, but you can open issues here, submit pull requests etc. and we will coordinate your contributions.
You can play around with the latest release of D-BAS on https://dbas.cs.hhu.de/.
Ensure that the following tools are installed:
- Python >= 3.6
- Docker
- Docker Compose
Find the latest documentation here: https://dbas.cs.hhu.de/docs/
D-BAS needs some environment variables to be set for running properly.
By default those variables which are required by D-BAS are stored in .env.
To get further details on which variables are set or how they can be added/changed take a look at the documentation here.
All docker-compose.<service>.yml-files had been moved to the /docker/compose folder.
Since development.yml is now used for production-mode each <service>.yml-file must be saved separately.
To add a service to production-mode the corresponding <service>.yml-file must be defined in /docker/compose.
Then the code must be added to docker-compose.yml.
Then follow these steps:
If you want to run D-BAS locally in dev-mode:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml up
If you want to include the notification service as well as elastic search:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml -f docker/compose/notifications.yml -f docker/compose/search.yml up
After this you can hit http://localhost:4284 for D-BAS.
If your container stucks during the first start up, please install D-BAS manually (while the container is running) via:
docker-compose -f docker-compose.dev.yml exec web make
Afterwards everything should be fine.
Currently, the default Compose file is being used by us with pre-built images. We are working on this to make it accessible for everyone.
Start it with:
docker-compose up
Set Ports for your environment in .env or provide it during runtime to your CI/CD platform. Find the variables in .env.
We thank all contributors of this project! In order of appearance:
- Alexander Schneider
- Marc Feger
- Markus Brenneis
- Jan Steimann
Thanks to all former contributors! In order of appearance:
- Teresa Uebber (JS Graphs and Visualizations)
Thanks for maintaining the project and for your work! We appreciate your efforts 🎉 In order of appearance:
We published several papers on this work and on our software. Here is a selection of them:
- Various Efforts of Enhancing Real World Online Discussions
- D-BAS - A Dialog-Based Online Argumentation System
- Overview of our Publications
Cite this software with the BibTeX Scheme:
@inproceedings{hhucn2018,
title={D-BAS-A Dialog-Based Online Argumentation System.},
author={Krauthoff, Tobias and Meter, Christian and Baurmann, Michael and Betz, Gregor and Mauve, Martin},
booktitle={COMMA},
pages={325--336},
year={2018}
}Copyright (c) 2016 – 2018 Tobias Schröder (né Krauthoff), Christian Meter
Copyright (c) 2018 – today hhucn
Distributed under the MIT License
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