Project 4beta Partners with The Data and Research Center

Gabija Birgile

Last updated on

2025-06-27

1 min read

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To help make data-driven investigations more accessible and efficient, Project 4β has joined forces with the Data and Research Center (DARC). The partnership provides DARC with access to Oxylabs’ scraping infrastructure, supporting investigative teams working with large-scale public web data.

We're excited to announce a new partnership between Project 4β and the Data and Research Center (DARC) to support their work in providing bespoke data and research services for investigative teams.

About DARC

DARC is a Germany-based independent organization that provides expert-driven research, investigative technology, and data solutions to journalists, NGOs, civil society organizations, and select corporate clients. Their mission is to make data-based investigations more accessible, efficient, and secure.

Powered by OpenAleph – DARC's open-source platform for large-scale document and data search – their team helps partners conduct asset tracing, locate people and networks, analyze trade data, investigate ownership structures, and geolocate media. They also offer tailored support with infrastructure setup, data acquisition, analysis, and project collaboration.

Partnership Goals

DARC's projects often rely on accessing structured and semi-structured data from public websites, but increasingly, this kind of access is becoming technically challenging. Through the Project 4β initiative, DARC receives free access to Oxylabs' infrastructure – residential proxies and WEB Scraper API to enhance data collection efforts and scraping workflows.

Accessing information on the internet in bulk – even information that should be publicly available – is becoming harder and harder. We're happy to be part of the 4β program and streamline our processes with the help of Oxylabs.

Jan Strozyk, Director for data and journalism projects at DARC

Invitation to Join 4β

Oxylabs continues to support data-driven journalism efforts and collaborates with investigative journalism organizations, including Bellingcat, Global Witness, The Pulitzer Center, ICIJ, Debunk.org, CeMAS, among others.

We always welcome new members, so If you need public web data collection solutions for research, academic work, or investigative projects, feel free to contact us via 4beta@oxylabs.io or by filing a form.

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About the author

Gabija Birgile

Senior PR Manager

Gabija Birgile is a Senior PR Manager at Oxylabs. After working in a PR agency and juggling various projects for quite some time, she wanted to try a role in the tech industry. Making a positive impact with her work was always on top of her mind, so managing "Project 4β" pro bono partnerships now definitely does the job. If you have a project in mind, drop her a message at 4beta@oxylabs.io.

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