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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
molanort1-323643: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording of Gasholders at the Former Hind Lane Gasworks, Birkenhead, Merseyside, 2016-2018. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-323643: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording of Gasholders at the Former Hind Lane Gasworks, Birkenhead, Merseyside, 2016-2018

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-228734: Digital Archive from a Historic Recording of Gasholders at the Former Washwood Heath Gasworks, Heartlands Parkway, Birmingham, February-October 2015. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-228734: Digital Archive from a Historic Recording of Gasholders at the Former Washwood Heath Gasworks, Heartlands Parkway, Birmingham, February-October 2015

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-224781: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording of Gasholder at the Former Garston Gasworks, Bank's Road, Garston, Liverpool, February-September 2015. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-224781: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording of Gasholder at the Former Garston Gasworks, Bank's Road, Garston, Liverpool, February-September 2015

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-364373: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at the Former Swan Village Gas Works, Swan Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands, 2018-2019. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-364373: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at the Former Swan Village Gas Works, Swan Lane, West Bromwich, West Midlands, 2018-2019

MOLA Northampton
ecusltd1-529528: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Wicken Farm, Wicken Road, Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire, August and September 2024. Copyright: Cura Terrae
ecusltd1-529528: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Wicken Farm, Wicken Road, Leckhampstead, Buckinghamshire, August and September 2024

Cura Terrae
heritage1-530244: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Former Coach House and Stables, Embleton Tower, Main Street, Embleton, Northumberland, 2022 - 2024. Copyright: The Heritage Network
heritage1-530244: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Former Coach House and Stables, Embleton Tower, Main Street, Embleton, Northumberland, 2022 - 2024

The Heritage Network
groundwo2-514927: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at 248-262 Huntingdon Street, Nottingham, January - February, 2023. Copyright: Groundworks Archaeology
groundwo2-514927: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at 248-262 Huntingdon Street, Nottingham, January - February, 2023

Groundworks Archaeology
stephenh1-529091: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Works at Park Hill Farm, Gisburn Road, Barrowford, Lancashire, October 2024. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-529091: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Works at Park Hill Farm, Gisburn Road, Barrowford, Lancashire, October 2024

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-531506: Site Images from a Photographic Survey at Oak Mount Mill, Wiseman Street, Burnley, Lancashire, February 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-531506: Site Images from a Photographic Survey at Oak Mount Mill, Wiseman Street, Burnley, Lancashire, February 2025

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-530544: Site Images from a Level 3 Analytical Buildings Record of the Barn North of Eccleston Hall, Eccleston, Lancashire, January 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-530544: Site Images from a Level 3 Analytical Buildings Record of the Barn North of Eccleston Hall, Eccleston, Lancashire, January 2025

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
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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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