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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
colchest3-264961: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Westrope Haulage Yard, Birdbrook, Essex, October 2016. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-264961: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Westrope Haulage Yard, Birdbrook, Essex, October 2016

Colchester Archaeological Trust
archaeol6-506903: Site Data from a Watching Brief and Evaluation at Morelands Industrial Estate, Rettendon, Essex, May 2022. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-506903: Site Data from a Watching Brief and Evaluation at Morelands Industrial Estate, Rettendon, Essex, May 2022

Archaeology South-East
albionar1-426749: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Investigation at 191-199 High Street South, Dunstable, June 2013. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-426749: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Investigation at 191-199 High Street South, Dunstable, June 2013

Albion Archaeology
colchest3-502869: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring at The Chantry, Colchester, Essex, June 2022. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-502869: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring at The Chantry, Colchester, Essex, June 2022

Colchester Archaeological Trust
albionar1-504838: Images and CAD Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Mancroft Road, Caddington, Bedfordshire, July 2022. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-504838: Images and CAD Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Mancroft Road, Caddington, Bedfordshire, July 2022

Albion Archaeology
archaeol5-517144: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief and Strip Map And Sample at Bateman Farm, Wormhill, Derbyshire, May 2024. Copyright: Archaeological Research Services Ltd
archaeol5-517144: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief and Strip Map And Sample at Bateman Farm, Wormhill, Derbyshire, May 2024

Archaeological Research Services Ltd
albionar1-512445: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Old Plough, High Green, Abbotsley, Cambridgeshire, February 2023. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-512445: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Old Plough, High Green, Abbotsley, Cambridgeshire, February 2023

Albion Archaeology
thejesso1-522940: Photographs and Drawings from Historic Building Recording of Crewe Hall Boathouse, Cheshire, 2024. Copyright: TJC Heritage Ltd
thejesso1-522940: Photographs and Drawings from Historic Building Recording of Crewe Hall Boathouse, Cheshire, 2024

TJC Heritage Ltd
colchest3-526874: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at 7 Church Street, Tollesbury, Maldon, Essex, August 2024. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-526874: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording at 7 Church Street, Tollesbury, Maldon, Essex, August 2024

Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-273151: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation to the rear of Swan View, The Street, Hatfield Peveral, Essex, January 2017. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-273151: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation to the rear of Swan View, The Street, Hatfield Peveral, Essex, January 2017

Colchester Archaeological Trust
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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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