"Truth cannot penetrate a closed mind. If all places in the universe are in the Aleph, then all stars, all lamps, all sources of light are in it, too."

— Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph

OpenAleph is a free, open source platform designed to empower investigative journalists, researchers, and curious minds. With OpenAleph, you can explore vast amounts of documents and datasets quickly: Uncovering connections, correlations, and insights that help reveal the bigger story.

• Intuitive Data Indexing: Quickly search and analyze both unstructured documents (PDFs, Word files, HTML) and structured data (CSV, XLS, SQL).
• Powerful Cross-Referencing: Easily track well-known entities—like names and companies—across datasets to support your investigations.
• Community Driven: OpenAleph is developed and maintained by the Data and Research Center (DARC) alongside a passionate community.
• Industry Standard: Under the hood, OpenAleph relies on the FollowTheMoney data schema which is used by many other projects.

Discover how to install, use, and contribute to OpenAleph through our documentation.

OpenAleph can run be deployed locally with Docker, for testing purposes:

1. Run cp aleph.env.tmpl aleph.env and then edit aleph.env. Assign a value to ALEPH_SECRET_KEY. You can also set ALEPH_SINGLE_USER=true or create an admit user following the instructions in the documentation.
2. Run make build; make upgrade; make web.
3. Navigate to http://localhost:8080/.

This deployment method should not be used for production environments. The technical documentation details different ways to run OpenAleph in production.

Connect with fellow researchers, developers, and enthusiasts on our community platform at darc.social. Whether you have questions, need support, or want to share your ideas, you're always welcome!

We invite contributions of all kinds: code improvements, bug reports, feature ideas, or even better documentation. To help us grow together, please review our contribution guidelines. Make sure you familiarize yourself with out Code of Conduct, too.

If you need help using OpenAleph, we encourage you to consult our documentation first. Community support is available via GitHub and our community platform on darc.social. For guaranteed support with formal service agreements, please refer to our managed services offering.

OpenAleph is open source software. See the LICENSE file for details.

Standing on the shoulders of giants: OpenAleph builds on the brilliant work of the many contributors of the Aleph project, it's predecessor. We've published a blog post about the decision to fork and continue the OpenAleph open source project here.