At the Data and Research Center (DARC), we provide expert-driven, flexible research and data solutions tailored to the unique needs of journalists, NGOs, civil society organizations, and select corporate clients. Powered by OpenAleph, our versatile open-source search tool, we ensure fast, efficient, and precise investigations, delivering the reliability of an in-house team with the convenience of a monthly subscription.
https://dataresearchcenter.org/
OpenAleph 5 makes search cleaner, system behavior clearer & document processing more resilient.
👉 Read our blog post for full details on the release: https://openaleph.org/blog/2025/09/80-Years-of-The-Aleph-and-the-release-of-OpenAleph-5/2ac021f4-ad09-47ff-a9f0-5f96aa512753/
✨ What’s new in OpenAleph 5:
🔎 Discovery Dashboard – see top people, companies, orgs & locations in your dataset
💡 Search suggestions – related names surface alongside queries to reveal hidden links
👀 Try the new Discovery page (with correlated name suggestions in search) right now in our public instance:
🔗 https://search.openaleph.org/datasets/469#mode=discovery
🎉 OpenAleph 5 is here!!
On Sept 1, 1945, Borges published The Aleph, the story that inspired Aleph, the open-source software OpenAleph builds on. Eighty years later, we’re proud to release OpenAleph 5, a major update that makes investigative search faster, clearer & more adaptable.
🔍 Read our blog post for more details and insight into how we did it.
🚨 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.
With geocoded addresses now built into OpenAleph, you can map entities, spot who shares an address, explore what’s nearby, and uncover links that aren’t immediately obvious.
A new lens for mapping networks, shell companies, and proximity-based connections.
Can't wait to catch you all at @nrecherche Jahreskonferenz 2025! We'll be running two workshops:
Tracking Ships, Planes, and Other Vehicles: https://lnkd.in/e3zH7nVi
Einführung in OpenAleph: Das Neue Daten-Tool: https://lnkd.in/enSk7PEs
Let us know if you're going to be there. We'd love to hang out and share some stickers!
#NR25
In an age where technology increasingly shapes every facet of our lives, the media industry stands at a critical crossroads. In this podcast episode, we delve into the pressing need for ethical guidelines, frameworks and infrastructure that govern the intersection of technology and journalism. Join us as we engage with thought leaders, tech innovators, and media professionals to explore the following key questions: How can we ensure that emerging technologies serve the public good? What ethical considerations should be prioritised when designing tools and platforms for newsrooms? Most importantly - can independent journalism truly be sovereign without controlling its own tech stack? Participants will gain insights into how independent media stay independent and what ethical infrastructure or alternatives they can use to foster transparency, accountability, and diversity in media. We'll unpack current challenges posed by algorithmic biases and platform monopolies as we seek to identify best practices for creating an inclusive media environment. This podcast is recorded live in front of an audience at Publix, a house for media and democracy in Berlin, Germany. Online attendees can also take part in the event and get their questions answered remotely.
At Publix, 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.
Jan spoke about DARC’s commitment to open source tools and why we run our own physical servers to host infrastructure critical to our clients, like OpenAleph.
