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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
cotswold2-505211: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Lakeside Avenue, Lydney, Gloucestershire, January 2011-October 2012. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-505211: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Lakeside Avenue, Lydney, Gloucestershire, January 2011-October 2012

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cotswold2-514932: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Lawn's Farm, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire, April to May 2022. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-514932: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Lawn's Farm, Lytham St Anne's, Lancashire, April to May 2022

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cotswold2-530948: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Minerals Hospital, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, November 2023. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-530948: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Minerals Hospital, Upper Borough Walls, Bath, Bath and North East Somerset, November 2023

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cotswold2-510043: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Mill Farm Irrigation Reservoir, Great Bradley, Suffolk, November 2022. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-510043: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Mill Farm Irrigation Reservoir, Great Bradley, Suffolk, November 2022

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hs2copa1-502426: Data from an Archaeological Recording at Fleet Marston Cottages and Putlowes, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 2021 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2copa1-502426: Data from an Archaeological Recording at Fleet Marston Cottages and Putlowes, Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire, 2021 (HS2 Phase One)

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nmr1-524841: Digital Archive from Conservation Mitigation Works, and a Fabric Survey at Cleeve Abbey, Washford, Watchet, Somerset, 1996-1998. Copyright: Historic England
nmr1-524841: Digital Archive from Conservation Mitigation Works, and a Fabric Survey at Cleeve Abbey, Washford, Watchet, Somerset, 1996-1998

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cotswold2-531856: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Trinity Lane, Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, May to June 2022. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-531856: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Trinity Lane, Chipping Sodbury, South Gloucestershire, May to June 2022

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cotswold2-526597: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Plough Inn, 62 The Street, Icklingham, Suffolk, August 2024. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-526597: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Plough Inn, 62 The Street, Icklingham, Suffolk, August 2024

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oxfordar3-251496: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Nursery Lane, South Wootton, Norfolk, June 2016. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
oxfordar3-251496: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Nursery Lane, South Wootton, Norfolk, June 2016

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oxfordar3-526084: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Princess Avenue, March, Cambridgeshire, May 2024. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
oxfordar3-526084: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Princess Avenue, March, Cambridgeshire, May 2024

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OASIS is an online reporting form enabling heritage practitioners to provide information about their investigations to regional Historic Environment Records (HERs) and respective national heritage organisations.

As well as being an information-gathering tool, researchers may share reports with HERs for public release in the Archaeology Data Service (ADS) Library.

The ADS, in addition to making the reports available online for access to the wider public, undertakes the curation and archiving of the digital files, ensuring long-term preservation.

Publius Horatius by Hendrick Goltzius (Stecher_in) – 1586 – Albertina, Austria – Public Domain.https://www.europeana.eu/item/15508/DG74442 The OASIS form is shortly to be redeployed (by the end of September 2023) with a number of improvements requested by users. These are primarily based on the Search, Results, and Summary pages. A full list is below: A more open-ended … Continue reading Update: September 2023 →

Over the last two years we’ve been developing a separate application known as the OASIS Dashboard. The Dashboard is a ‘sandbox’ application that focusses on presenting the user with more views and ways of interacting with OASIS data. Funding for the Dashboard was via a grant from the University of York ESRC Impact Acceleration Account, … Continue reading The OASIS Dashboard →

Over the period December 2022 to January 2023 all Scottish OASIS records were copied into the new OASIS database. From this point forward OASIS V should be used for creating new records and editing existing records. This process took much longer than originally anticipated due to some improvements that were required on the mapping of … Continue reading OASIS V now live in Scotland →

One of the many requirements for the new OASIS system was the ability to link together individual projects that belong to the same scheme of works or research project. This could be defined as: However, the definition of a project is always tricky! OASIS itself sets no definitions on what a ‘project’ is, as this … Continue reading Guidance for linking large-scale projects or phases of work →

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