# FollowTheMoney / OpenSanctions / OpenAleph at DataHarvest conference 2025

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**Created:** [May 26, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/followthemoney-opensanctions-openaleph-at-dataharvest-conference-2025/112 "2025-05-26T10:09:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![Simon](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex014/user_avatar/discuss.opensanctions.org/simon/32/26_2.png) [@Simon](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/u/Simon)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2025, 10:09am UTC](https://discuss.opensanctions.org/t/followthemoney-opensanctions-openaleph-at-dataharvest-conference-2025/112/1 "2025-05-26T10:09:20Z")

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Hey all,

OpenSanctions is part of a greater community around investigative tooling, the [FollowTheMoney](https://followthemoney.tech) ecosystem, and the open source research platform [OpenAleph](https://openaleph.org).

This weekend, some of the organizations and people from this family, including @pudo and me (@simon from [Data and Research Center – DARC](https://darc.li)) went to the **European Investigative Journalism Conference** (called [DataHarvest](https://dataharvest.eu)) to present different projects and knowledge about all kinds FtM tooling.

Here we gather our material from our sessions and workshops. Feel free to comment or ask any further questions!

(This post will be updated to add more material)

**Friday**

- Tracking assets and people: A day in the life of an investigative researcher by Karina Shedrofsky (Director of Research at DARC)

- Farm subsidies: get the new data, find stories about the biggest EU money pot by @simon (and Leo Salzenstein from [JournalismArena](https://journalismarena.eu))

**Saturday**

- Harnessing the power of OpenAleph: a look at its new features and how to use them to find the data you’re looking for by Alex Ștefănescu (Senior Dev at DARC) and @simon

- Investigative Tools for the Commons: DARC, OpenAleph, and the Case for a Shared Data Library (roundtable) by Alex, Karina, @Jan (Director of Data and Journalism Projects at DARC) and @simon

- Skill take away - come and learn four skills/tools in one session by Alex

- The Investigative Commons - how to share structured data, document collections and build knowledge collaboratively by Alex, @pudo and @simon

**Sunday**

- Using OpenSanctions for investigative research by @pudo
  - [Slides](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1BYRkRjuON_KUk9JoAlJd-U39k9zA7pktueW8YvakMlw/edit?slide=id.g1e966dd23af_0_13#slide=id.g1e966dd23af_0_13)