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🚨 New in OpenAleph: Geocoded Addresses Names & IDs are key for finding connections, but geography tells a story too. Now you can: 📍 Map entities 🏠 Spot shared addresses 🕵️‍♀️ Explore what’s nearby 🧩 Uncover hidden links A new lens for network mapping & company sleuthing. #OpenAleph #OSINT #DataTools

🚨 New in OpenAleph: Geocoded Addresses Investigators often look for links between names, companies, or IDs, but geography tells its own story, and sometimes it's the missing piece.

#IguanaPapers: BBC carried out a years-long investigation into a Colombian state-owned oil company after a whistleblower leaked 100s of internal emails & documents. On publication day, they made the documents available, @darcdataresearch.bsky.social made them searchable: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Darc.social is growing, and we've been actively sharing OpenAleph updates there. If you're into OSINT, building a shared library of datasets for investigations, or helping shape the future of OpenAleph and other investigative tools, come join the conversation.

Can't wait to catch you all at Netzwerk Recherche Jahreskonferenz 2025! We'll be running two workshops: Tracking Ships, Planes, and Other Vehicles: lnkd.in/e3zH7nVi Einführung in OpenAleph: Das Neue Daten-Tool: lnkd.in/enSk7PEs

At Publix, our co-founder Jan Lukas Strozyk joined Alexandra Borchardt and Wafaa Albadry for a live podcast panel hosted by Sabrina Faramarzi, digging into who controls the tech that powers journalism, and what we can do about it.

We're going to be at this year's Netzwerk Recherche Jahreskonferenz! We're excited to meet you there! #NR25

If you'd like to lurk or participate in discussions about building a "Library of Common Reference Datasets" for investigative journalism, or to shape the future of OpenAleph (and other investigative tooling), join us ( @darcdataresearch.bsky.social ) on our new Discourse server: darc.social .

Thank you to the amazing team at @journalismareana.eu for such a successful #Dataharvest2025! We're so grateful and honestly in awe that we got to be part of it.

Catch @flokinet.bluesky.flokinet.social and our team at #Dataharvest 2025!

Catch us at #Dataharvest, all sessions featuring DARC peeps today! Harnessing the power of OpenAleph: a look at its new features and how to use them to find the data you're looking for: lnkd.in/eVH3DB-w

Diligently preparing for Data Harvest 2025! We have some great upcoming presentations for you! Check them out! 😎

We're going to start our own newsletter! We already have an idea of what we want to do but we want to hear from you first! Vote for your preferences and what you would want out of our newsletter. Vote by liking the thread's posts.

We got a whole array of services that we're proud to offer. We're serving the following: Comprehensive Research Investigative Tech Data & Tooling Project Management & Collaboration Support Trainings, Workshops & Events Read more about them on our website! #DARC #Research #InvestigativeTech #Data

The votes are in! We're bringing "Welcome to the DARC side" stickers to this year's #DataharvestConference! We'll have a few other designs too, so feel free to find us throughout the event to snag your favorite!

It's Labour Day in Germany and the team at DARC compiled a list of cool resources! If you have recommendations for good media about labour history and practices, slide them into our DMs. ;) #LabourDay #MayFirst

It's another #teamtuesday and we're highlighting our cornerstone of the team! Grae PN is the Operations Manager at DARC, where they apply project management expertise to oversee complex research and operational initiatives.

It's #TeamTuesday and we're finally revealing our ghost in the machine and Senior Developer! @catileptic.bsky.social is an open-source developer working on investigative tooling, including #OpenAleph.

We’re printing stickers and we want to bring some fan favs to #Dataharvest2025 this May! Drop your pick in the comments and we’ll bring a limited batch to the conference. After the event, we’ll kick off a fun little competition. Instructions coming soon but first VOTE!

This #TeamTuesday, we're putting our Director of Data and Journalism Projects in the spotlight! Jan Strozyk's interest lies in the convergence of technology and investigative journalism, where he contributes to shaping the future of reporting as DARC's Director of Data and Journalism Projects.

This fabulous friday is graced by our amazing Director of Research, Karina Shedrofsky! Karina enables impactful investigations as DARC's Director of Research, driven by a passion for tracking elusive individuals and leveraging open-source data to uncover hidden connections. (1/3)

☕️ All set for @journalismfestival.com in Perugia with good coffee and even better company! Meet us here and let's talk digital rights, cybersecurity, and data privacy. @darcdataresearch.bsky.social #IJF25 #Perugia #FlokiNET #SecureTheNet #DataPrivacy

Touch down! Catch us and FlokiNET at the #journalismfestival in #perugia! We got all the answers for your data, reseach, infrastructure, and investigation questions! We're excited to learn and connect with you! #ijf

We're starting the week strong with our team's intro! First is our fearless co-founder, Simon Wörpel! Simon leads the investigative tooling development, including OpenAleph, as DARC's Director of Technology. (1/4)

We are at #journalismfestival #perugia #ijf next week, get in touch if you want to chat! And, we are still overwhelmed by all the lovely feedback we got from y'all for our launch this week! thanks for your support. 🫶

You may have read that we're starting OpenAleph, but what is it? It's an open source document search engine used for journalistic investigations, forked from the Aleph tool originally developed by @occrp.org (1/2) #OpenAleph #OpenSourceSoftware

WE'RE LIVE! The Data and Research Center is ready to take on your investigations. Read more about our team, what we do, and how to get in contact with us! dataresearchcenter.org @catileptic.bsky.social @jls.bsky.social @karinashed.bsky.social @phantagepoint.bsky.social

Welcome DARC to the ecosystem! dataresearchcenter.org/projects/ We are also very proud to be working on the Library of Leaks project with y'all @catileptic.bsky.social @jls.bsky.social Can't wait to see what you have in store...

thrilled to be part of the newly-launched Data Research Center - DARC i'm lucky to be in the company of some pretty awe-inspiring people! hoping to build a DARC Bluesky started pack soon. here's to good work, out in the open!