bwDataArchive

The service bwDataArchive enables long-term archiving / digital preservation of research data. It is available (in particular) to members of universities and public research institutions in Baden-Württemberg and provides KIT employees with 500 GB of free archive storage. The data is archived by the Scientific Computing Center (SCC) of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). bwDataArchive guarantees reliable storage for a period of ten years or more, even for large amounts of data. The service complies with the recommendations of the German Research Foundation (DFG) regarding the security and storage of research data. As an infrastructure, it also offers archive storage for other services such as RADAR and KITopen.