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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
colchest3-523614: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at Hill House, Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex, 2024 - 2025. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-523614: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at Hill House, Lexden Road, Colchester, Essex, 2024 - 2025

Colchester Archaeological Trust
essexsmr1-508187: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Building Recording at Oak Farm, Wakes Colne, Essex, May 2022. Copyright: Essex County Council
essexsmr1-508187: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Building Recording at Oak Farm, Wakes Colne, Essex, May 2022

Essex County Council
preconst1-530145: Images and Reports from Historic Building Recording at Rectory Farm, Middle Street, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, September - October 2024. Copyright: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
preconst1-530145: Images and Reports from Historic Building Recording at Rectory Farm, Middle Street, Thriplow, Cambridgeshire, September - October 2024

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
essexsmr1-514541: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Building Survey at Beaumont Quay, Essex, June - November 2022. Copyright: Place Services
essexsmr1-514541: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Building Survey at Beaumont Quay, Essex, June - November 2022

Place Services
thearcha4-539798: Images and a Report from Analytical Building Recording at Holland House, Lees Lane, Dalton, Lancashire, May 2025. Copyright: The Archaeology Co.
thearcha4-539798: Images and a Report from Analytical Building Recording at Holland House, Lees Lane, Dalton, Lancashire, May 2025

The Archaeology Co.
oxfordar2-529856: Images from Historic Building Investigation and Recording at Derby Street Railway Bridge, Ormskirk, Lancashire, November 2024. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology North
oxfordar2-529856: Images from Historic Building Investigation and Recording at Derby Street Railway Bridge, Ormskirk, Lancashire, November 2024

Oxford Archaeology North
essexsmr1-523274: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at 4 Hadham Hall, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, February 2024. Copyright: Essex County Council
essexsmr1-523274: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at 4 Hadham Hall, Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, February 2024

Essex County Council
wessexar1-414386: Digital archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Botley Bypass and Uplands Farm, Botley, Hampshire, 2020. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-414386: Digital archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Botley Bypass and Uplands Farm, Botley, Hampshire, 2020

Wessex Archaeology
cotswold2-537771: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Stoke Road, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, July to November 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-537771: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Stoke Road, Bishop's Cleeve, Gloucestershire, July to November 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
oxfordar2-522827: Digital archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at East of A5, Gobowen Lower Hengoed, Shropshire, 20243. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology North
oxfordar2-522827: Digital archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at East of A5, Gobowen Lower Hengoed, Shropshire, 20243

Oxford Archaeology North
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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.

The OASIS form is shortly to be redeployed 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 piece of work has been sorting out author records between OASIS and the ADS Library. A more detailed … Continue reading Update on recent improvements →

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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