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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
cotswold2-522732: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Bidwell West, Plots H and I, Houghton Regis, Central Bedfordshire, July to September 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-522732: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Bidwell West, Plots H and I, Houghton Regis, Central Bedfordshire, July to September 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-522712: Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavations at Pershore Road and Roman Meadow, Eckington, Worcestershire, November 2020 to April 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-522712: Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavations at Pershore Road and Roman Meadow, Eckington, Worcestershire, November 2020 to April 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
oxfordar3-337145: Digital Archive from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Grafham Solar Array, Cambridgeshire, October-November 2018. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
oxfordar3-337145: Digital Archive from a Trial Trench Evaluation at Grafham Solar Array, Cambridgeshire, October-November 2018

Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
archaeol11-527037: Images from Historic Building Recording and Investigation at Leyland Trading Estate Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, June 2024. Copyright: Archaeological Services WYAS
archaeol11-527037: Images from Historic Building Recording and Investigation at Leyland Trading Estate Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, June 2024

Archaeological Services WYAS
networka2-502416: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023. Copyright: Network Archaeology Ltd
networka2-502416: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023

Network Archaeology Ltd
networka2-360169: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023. Copyright: Network Archaeology Ltd
networka2-360169: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023

Network Archaeology Ltd
colchest3-426272: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Temple Lane, Silver End, Essex, June 2021. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-426272: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Temple Lane, Silver End, Essex, June 2021

Colchester Archaeological Trust
aocarcha1-227406: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Shepley Street, Glossop, Derbyshire, March - May 2015. Copyright: AOC Archaeology Group
aocarcha1-227406: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Shepley Street, Glossop, Derbyshire, March - May 2015

AOC Archaeology Group
networka2-218593: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023. Copyright: Network Archaeology Ltd
networka2-218593: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Broomfleet Quarry, Tongue Lane, Brough, East Riding of Yorkshire, 2013 - 2023

Network Archaeology Ltd
colchest3-514210: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St Margaret's Church, Maldon Road, Woodham Mortimer, Essex, September 2023. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-514210: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St Margaret's Church, Maldon Road, Woodham Mortimer, Essex, September 2023

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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