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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
southwes1-522240: Images and Plans from a Buildings Recording and Investigation at Former Bicclescombe Nurseries, Furze Hill Road, Ilfracombe, Devon, August 2024 - June 2025. Copyright: South West Archaeology Ltd
southwes1-522240: Images and Plans from a Buildings Recording and Investigation at Former Bicclescombe Nurseries, Furze Hill Road, Ilfracombe, Devon, August 2024 - June 2025

South West Archaeology Ltd
johnmoor1-536187: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Weybrook Park Golf Course, Rooksdown Lane, Basingstoke, July to August 2025. Copyright: John Moore Heritage Services
johnmoor1-536187: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Weybrook Park Golf Course, Rooksdown Lane, Basingstoke, July to August 2025

John Moore Heritage Services
deearcha1-526563: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Dee House Chapel, Chester, April 2024. Copyright: Dee Archaeological Services
deearcha1-526563: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Dee House Chapel, Chester, April 2024

Dee Archaeological Services
johnmoor1-522869: Digital Archive from Archaeological Mitigation and Evaluation at Former Dominion Oils Site, Railway Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, January to May 2024. Copyright: John Moore Heritage Services
johnmoor1-522869: Digital Archive from Archaeological Mitigation and Evaluation at Former Dominion Oils Site, Railway Lane, Oxford, Oxfordshire, January to May 2024

John Moore Heritage Services
oxfordar1-534054: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at 19-21 St John Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, January - November 2024. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-534054: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at 19-21 St John Street, Oxford, Oxfordshire, January - November 2024

Oxford Archaeology (South)
johnmoor1-516775: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blockley, Gloucestershire, June 2023. Copyright: John Moore Heritage Services
johnmoor1-516775: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring at Church of St Peter and St Paul, Blockley, Gloucestershire, June 2023

John Moore Heritage Services
johnmoor1-528827: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording from The Mill Cottage, Lock Approach, Goring, Oxfordshire , May to September 2024. Copyright: John Moore Heritage Services
johnmoor1-528827: Digital Archive from Archaeological Monitoring and Recording from The Mill Cottage, Lock Approach, Goring, Oxfordshire , May to September 2024

John Moore Heritage Services
cotswold2-397269: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Centre Severn, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 2020-2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-397269: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Centre Severn, Barnwood, Gloucester, Gloucestershire, 2020-2021

Cotswold Archaeology
archaeol27-533475: Images and Finds Data from an Archaeological Watching Brief at 11 Tibbets Close, Alcester, Warwickshire, April 2025. Copyright: Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol27-533475: Images and Finds Data from an Archaeological Watching Brief at 11 Tibbets Close, Alcester, Warwickshire, April 2025

Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol3-536693: Photographs from Analytical Building Recording at Former Institute for the Blind, Villiers Street, Sunderland, 2025. Copyright: Archaeological Services Durham University
archaeol3-536693: Photographs from Analytical Building Recording at Former Institute for the Blind, Villiers Street, Sunderland, 2025

Archaeological Services Durham University
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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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