The DDS are a recognized civil service institution. Fields of activity as a member of the civil service at the DDS include digitalization and indexation of documents of the Swiss Federal Archive as well as research tasks in support of the edition of the DDS and the online database Dodis. For more information, please refer to the duty specifications: Indexierung und Digitalisierung historischer Dokumente and Informatik-Entwicklung und Datenbankpflege historischer Dokumente.