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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
wessexar1-529908: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Portway, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2024. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-529908: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at The Portway, Old Sarum, Salisbury, Wiltshire, 2024

Wessex Archaeology
archaeol6-224099: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation Work at Ballards Walk, Great Dunmow, Essex, 2015. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-224099: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation Work at Ballards Walk, Great Dunmow, Essex, 2015

Archaeology South-East
wessexar1-524251: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording and Archaeological Watching Brief Work at St Mary's Church, Bentworth, Hampshire, 2024. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-524251: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording and Archaeological Watching Brief Work at St Mary's Church, Bentworth, Hampshire, 2024

Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-533011: Digital Archive from Analytical Buildings Recording Work at the Old Police Offices, Wakefield, 2024-25. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-533011: Digital Archive from Analytical Buildings Recording Work at the Old Police Offices, Wakefield, 2024-25

Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-506203: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Horton Road, Devizes, 2022. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-506203: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Horton Road, Devizes, 2022

Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-533447: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Work at Coltran Mill, Doncaster, 2024. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-533447: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Work at Coltran Mill, Doncaster, 2024

Wessex Archaeology
oxfordar3-336192: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Hargham Road, Attleborough, Norfolk, October to November 2018. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
oxfordar3-336192: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Hargham Road, Attleborough, Norfolk, October to November 2018

Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
promethe1-534612: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Black Horse Pub, Binsted Farm, Binsted Lane, Walberton, West Sussex, August 2025. Copyright: Prometheus Solutions Limited
promethe1-534612: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Black Horse Pub, Binsted Farm, Binsted Lane, Walberton, West Sussex, August 2025

Prometheus Solutions Limited
oxfordar1-528725: Digital Archive from an Evaluation, Excavation and Watching Brief at Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxfordshire, 2019-2021 (Phases 1-3). Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-528725: Digital Archive from an Evaluation, Excavation and Watching Brief at Armstrong Road, Littlemore, Oxfordshire, 2019-2021 (Phases 1-3)

Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-510789: Digital Archives from a Watching Brief at St John's College, 16 St Giles's, Oxford, 2019-2020. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-510789: Digital Archives from a Watching Brief at St John's College, 16 St Giles's, Oxford, 2019-2020

Oxford Archaeology (South)
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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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