University of Heidelberg - Long-term preservation service for scientific data

About heiARCHIVE

heiARCHIVE is a new institutional service for long-term data preservation at Heidelberg University. It offers an easy-to-use platform for archival of research data in OAIS-compatible long-term preservation style.

Developed and operated by the Competence Center Research Data – a joint service facility of the University Computing Center and Heidelberg University Library.

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Meet the heiARCHIVE Team

University Computing Center (URZ-Heidelberg)


Dr. Martin Baumann Project Manager

Policies, Contributor & Communications

martin.baumann@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Benjamin Scherbaum Technical Direction

DevOps, Software Architect & Lead Developer

benjamin.scherbaum@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Alexander Haller Infrastructure Support

SysOps, Lead Deployment & Contributor

alexander.haller@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Sabine Richling

Contributor & Communications

sabine.richling@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Sven Siebler

Infrastructure SDS@hd & Contributor

sven.siebler@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Tatjana Mechler

Contributor & Curator

tatjana.mechler@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

Nina Bisheh

Contributor, Curator & Localization

nina.bisheh@urz.uni-heidelberg.de

University Library (UB-Heidelberg)


Leonhard Maylein

Contributor, heiDATA & Communications

maylein@ub.uni-heidelberg.de

Florian Heß

Ingest-Core Developer & Contributor

hess@ub.uni-heidelberg.de

Dr. Jochen Apel

Contributor

apel@ub.uni-heidelberg.de

Georg Schwesinger

Contributor

schwesinger@ub.uni-heidelberg.de

Credits & Shoutouts


Fehmi Ramzi

Senior Fullstack Developer, Django expert
Big Data ElasticSearch, Optimization
Pentester & Contributor @URZ


Eric Volkmann

Student Assistant & Junior Developer @URZ


Fabian Gebhart

Developer & System Engineer @URZ


Dr. Jonas Kratzke

Service Contracts @URZ


Dr. Martin Wlotzka

Developer & Contributor @URZ


Thank You


We’re proud to work together in making research data preservation sustainable and reliable for future generations at Heidelberg University.

Our sincere thanks go to everyone involved in heiARCHIVE — developers, curators, librarians, researchers, and institutional partners — for their commitment, collaboration, and shared dedication to long-term research data preservation.


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