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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
colchest3-431709: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation of Montpelier Villa, Blasford Hill, Little Waltham, Essex, November 2021. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-431709: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation of Montpelier Villa, Blasford Hill, Little Waltham, Essex, November 2021

Colchester Archaeological Trust
universi1-243711: Images from a Level 2 Historic Building Recording at Tansor Lodge Farm, Oundle Road, Elmington, Oundle, Northamptonshire, December 2014. Copyright: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
universi1-243711: Images from a Level 2 Historic Building Recording at Tansor Lodge Farm, Oundle Road, Elmington, Oundle, Northamptonshire, December 2014

University of Leicester Archaeological Services
colchest3-516312: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Chappel Hill, Chappel, Essex, August 2023. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-516312: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Chappel Hill, Chappel, Essex, August 2023

Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-520131: Digital Archive from an Open Area Excavation at St Margaret's Church, Maldon Road, Woodham Mortimer, Essex, November 2023. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-520131: Digital Archive from an Open Area Excavation at St Margaret's Church, Maldon Road, Woodham Mortimer, Essex, November 2023

Colchester Archaeological Trust
archaeol5-384054: Digital Archive from Archaeological Works East of Hardingstone, North of Newport Pagnell Road, Northamptonshire, February 2019-January 2020. Copyright: Archaeological Research Services Ltd
archaeol5-384054: Digital Archive from Archaeological Works East of Hardingstone, North of Newport Pagnell Road, Northamptonshire, February 2019-January 2020

Archaeological Research Services Ltd
universi1-356616: Images from Level 2 Historic Building Survey at Home Farm House, Back Lane, East Farndon, Northamptonshire, May 2019. Copyright: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
universi1-356616: Images from Level 2 Historic Building Survey at Home Farm House, Back Lane, East Farndon, Northamptonshire, May 2019

University of Leicester Archaeological Services
archaeol5-518204: Digital Archive for an Archaeological Evaluation at Former Westmill Foods Roundabout, Angel Drove, Ely, Cambridgeshire, July to August 2023. Copyright: Archaeological Research Services
archaeol5-518204: Digital Archive for an Archaeological Evaluation at Former Westmill Foods Roundabout, Angel Drove, Ely, Cambridgeshire, July to August 2023

Archaeological Research Services
universi1-347616: Images of Level 2 Historic Building Survey at Tansor Lodge and Tansor Lodge Farm, Oundle Road, Elmington, Northamptonshire, March 2019. Copyright: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
universi1-347616: Images of Level 2 Historic Building Survey at Tansor Lodge and Tansor Lodge Farm, Oundle Road, Elmington, Northamptonshire, March 2019

University of Leicester Archaeological Services
southwes1-505508: Images from a Watching Brief and Building Survey at Nanquidno Vean, St. Just, Cornwall, September-November 2019. Copyright: South West Archaeology Ltd
southwes1-505508: Images from a Watching Brief and Building Survey at Nanquidno Vean, St. Just, Cornwall, September-November 2019

South West Archaeology Ltd
wessexar1-390044: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation and Evaluation at Otterham Quay Lane, Rainham, Kent, February - July 2019. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-390044: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation and Evaluation at Otterham Quay Lane, Rainham, Kent, February - July 2019

Wessex Archaeology
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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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