Introduction

This is the home site of Arno H.P. Reuser with an explanation of my current activities in the field of courses in Open Source Intelligence search strategies for information workers and analists.

edited on 10jan08 by ar

Training OSINT

One of the main activities of Arno is the set of courses and lessons in Open Source Intelligence training (http://osint.reuser.biz) . The lessons are designed to be flexible and modular, built around a central theme: how to find the best possible information from open sources and do something usefull with it. The lessons are aimed at the beginner as well as advanced searchers in the field and range from a background introduction into the secrets of the internet, search strategies and search tactics, up to searching premium content providers like Factiva Dow Jones, Dialog and Lexis-Nexis. Take a look at the curriculum (http://osint.reuser.biz) to find out exactly how it works.

edited on 8oct07 by ar

Repertorium Bibliographicum

The full name of the Repertorium is Repertorium Bibliographicum in Usum Scholarum. As the name suggests, it is a systematic listing of bibliographic sources for general use. It is a little project that simply grew out of control since I graduated from the Library academy. The list of general quick reference works taught at the Academy is the basis of the Repertorium and was - at least by me - considered of such importance that I could not resist the temptation of rewriting the list and gradually adding my own titles.

The Repertorium Bibliographicum (http://bg.reuser.biz) is free for use.

edited on 30mar07 by ar

Isolde

Not just the love of Tristan, but also a little tool I am currently developing to search multiple single search engines in a more systematic way, applying the Building Block Search Strategy. The idea is to save all queries in a box to cite them in any new search, thus giving the possibility to actually create multiple queries (blocks) that can be combined in any order (building). Search results are always presented in a new window and for each of the major search engines a help page is automatically listed with the (clickable) operators and field names.

STATUS: alpha. As of now, Isolde only works for Mozilla Firefox and is under continuous revision. See http://isolde.reuser.biz (http://isolde.reuser.biz) .

edited on 12apr08 by ar

Reusers New Repertorium

A "Repertorium" is actually a little pocketbook for reference purposes. The Reusers New Repertorium (http://rr.reuser.biz) does basically just that: it is a little list of most important links to search engines, search tools, web sites and information retrieval tools that I found the most usefull for daily intelligence purposes. Entries are annotated and each category will be introduced by a little explanation.

The table of contents is divided into several parts. First: listing search engines and search tools, secondly: vendors and libraries, thirdly: common resource discovery tools and web sites. The 'Configurator' was written to enable the user to adapt the Repertorium to ones own needs buy turning on or off certain chapters.

The Repertorium is used during the Open Source Intelligence Courses during the exercises. It is written in XML using XSLt and Saxon for transformation, and a little Javascript for support.

The Repertorium is updated on a almost continuous basis.

edited on 20oct07 by ar

News

edited on 06jan07 by ar

Contact

You can contact me by sending mail to:

info ATSIGN reuser DOT biz

To prevent email bots, harvesters and spammers of getting my email adress very easy, I have applied a little trick. To use my email address, please replace all spaces, then replace ATSIGN by the AT sign (@) and the DOT by a full stop, if that wasn't obvious.

edited on 16jan07 by ar

About Arno

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edited on 06jan07 by ar

What others think...

''...Arno Reuser, Chief Librarian for Dutch Military Intelligence, was a real highlight of the conference - he has been a major force in the Open Source movement (with a giant white beard he looked the part of a prophet) and discussed some of the systems he has developed to better enable the retrieval of information''

''...Mr. Arno Reuser, Arno the Curious, is a Master Librarian who has done more for the practice of Open Source Inteligence (OSINT) in support of national security than anyone else in Europe. He has been a pioneer in the explotiation of badly-delivered OSINT from private sector vendors, writing original PERL programs to make sense of their feeds; he has known how to make the most of the Internet; and above all, he has known how to find and engage human intellects around the world, each capable of producing unique tailored knowledge not available online or in print. He is the Master Librarian of the OSINT world and all seven intelligence tribes.''

''...I recently heard a great answer to this question at a military intelligence conference. Arno Reuser is a Dutch Master Librarian with many credentials, uniquely humorous insights and a lengthy beard. (One of Arno's notable quotables: "Does size matter? Yes it does, gentlemen, in librarianship.") I asked him how he encourages people to learn to use new tools, such as advanced search processes: "I simply show them the results, and how I do it." Arno gave the following example of a powerful result. He searched Google for: {intitle:(india|new delhi) intitle:pakistan filetype:pdf -inurl:.com -sport}''

''...The single most important international pioneer in military OSINT is Research Arno Reuser, head of the Open Source Intelligence branch of the Dutch Military Intelligence organization. His deep knowledge of sources, softwares, and services, including his knowledge of fair and alternative pricing, is without peer. His latest briefing is available here. His PERL scrips may become avaiable here shortly''

''...Mr. Arno Reuser, Military Intelligence, The Netherlands : For his inspired leadership in migrating the Dutch military intelligence library from an archival to a discovery capability, to include value-added programming of incoming streams of raw data, and the virtual organization of distributed open source expertise''

CSE : think tanks

Here is a Custom Search Engine that will search selected organizations concerned with international relations and security only.

edited on 2feb08 by ar