#openaleph — Public Fediverse posts

this week, i'll release something i've been working on with a team of two other great folx

i didn't mention it so far, but i'm part of this year's @PrototypeFund cohort ^^ we've been cooking up some tools for investigators and researchers

the first two tools we will publish have been designed to "federate" OpenAleph instances. one query goes directly to as many instances as a user has access to

i will appreciate feedback & improvements on our little experiments

#openaleph #darc

i'm really excited about my latest work on #OpenAleph, the FOSS tool i'm working on for @darcdataresearch

we're working on expanding the traditional query-based search experience with contextual and relational search methods

we built a "Discovery" tab, that shows users data closely related to their search terms and a "Screening" tab, that allows them to do reserve search (start with a document, find structured data mentioned in it)

"Screening" is based on percolation: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/how-to-use-the-new-screening-feature/#the-future-of-search

#OpenAleph 5.3 is here!

Email threads: you can now view entire email conversations instead of jumping between messages.

Table Explorer: search, filter, and inspect huge CSVs and spreadsheets before turning them into structured data.

Entity Screening (Percolation): upload a document, and #OpenAleph will identify the #FollowTheMoney entities from your existing collections that are mentioned in it.

OpenAleph 5.3 Release: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/openaleph-53-email-threads-table-exploration-and-entity-screening/

The Screening Feature: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/how-to-use-the-new-screening-feature/

nothing like working on email parsing, facing the demons of real-world data, resigning one's self that standards are like flimsy manifestos nailed to the door of a church and the hydra of email servers will do as it pleases

...and, at the end of the day, delivering one tiny improvement to #OpenAleph

now it's time to take a long walk and dissolve all i know about header encoding in the smell of spring

Happy Birthday to Us!

April 1st marked one year of DARC.

A lot has happened this past yer. We’ve committed to the commons with OpenAleph, rolled out some major improvements and new features, collaborated on incredible projects, and most importantly, built a community that continues to challenge and inspire us.

And of course, none of this would be possible without our growing team.

Buckle up for year two. We’ve got a lot of work to do!

#openaleph #darc

OpenAleph 5.2 is out!

We go through the main changes in this release: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/openaleph-5-2-strengthening-email-and-breaking-language-barriers/a1df2376-0bda-44a8-9cf3-ccc4d8534c54/

...and then dive deeper into our new document translation feature: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/in-platform-translation-for-sensitive-documents/38401cf3-2455-4b0f-a8ea-95e38b97b2f2/

...as well as our improvements in ingesting and extracting information from emails: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/when-emails-get-complicated-5-2-handles-it/64dac929-6e82-493e-af84-c0afc8783239/

And yes, the UI got a little glow-up too.

#DARC #openaleph

OpenAleph, the FOSS tool for investigative journalists that i work on with @darcdataresearch just released version 5.2

i've published two technical deep dives into the things we spent most of our energy on with this new version:

* translating documents using deterministic machine learning tools (no genAI bullshit here): https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/in-platform-translation-for-sensitive-documents/38401cf3-2455-4b0f-a8ea-95e38b97b2f2/

* parsing e-mails to extract even more information and properly handle malformed headers and attachments: https://openaleph.org/blog/2026/03/when-emails-get-complicated-5-2-handles-it/64dac929-6e82-493e-af84-c0afc8783239/

#DARC #openaleph

Jan Strozyk, has published a write-up of the messiness of the latest Epstein files release from the US DOJ.

In the Readwrite newsletter, Jan stresses that "that technical frustration is secondary to the much bigger issue: that there still appears to be no meaningful accountability for what was done to girls and young women"

https://buttondown.com/readwrite/archive/edition-10-so-much-went-wrong-with-the-epstein/

#DARC #OpenAleph #Epstein

i got cozy at the social web (fediverse) track at #fosdem (#fosdem2026 ).

i have stickers
yes they are political, tech is political
come say hi, grab stickers, chat

@yawnbox and i are setting up an exciting project that i'd love to chat about ( @discotheque )

(also, if you wanna talk about OpenAleph, i can slip into my @darcdataresearch personna)

#disobeydiscotheque #openaleph #fediverse

@darcdataresearch has published a 2025 year is review edition of our newsletter

it always feels good for all the chaos across one entire year to finally form a clear and coherent narrative

https://buttondown.com/dataresearchcenter/archive/2025-darcest-year-in-history/

here's to 2026!

#darc #openaleph #aleph

I saw a funny toot that said "I wonder what the overlap of the Panama Papers and the Epstein files is".

This is exactly the kind of question that free and open-source software like #OpenAleph can answer.

@darcdataresearch is doing a session at #39c3 on making sense of leaked data and solving "AI problems" without AI.

Join us on Day 3 at 19:30 at SoS Stage H https://events.ccc.de/congress/2025/hub/en/event/detail/where-do-all-the-leaks-go-openaleph-roundtable

Don't forget to join the conversation and help shape what's next on darc.social
#DataJournalism #OpenAleph #Dataharvest2025 #CommunityContributions

@arenaforjournalismeurope @flokinet @frelsisbaratta @catileptic

It's #TeamTuesday and we're finally revealing our ghost in the machine and Senior Developer!

@catileptic is an open-source developer working on investigative tooling, including #OpenAleph. She is the #CTO of the digital rights advocacy non-profit ApTI - Asociatia pentru Tehnologie si Internet, Romania and has served as the CTO of the civic rights non-profit Code for Romania in the past.