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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
archaeol11-545238: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at Zones 2-3, Coney Street, York, May 2026. Copyright: Archaeological Services WYAS
archaeol11-545238: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Record (Level 2) at Zones 2-3, Coney Street, York, May 2026

Archaeological Services WYAS
cotswold2-523547: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at The Mead, Whitchurch, Bath and North-East Somerset, June - July 2017. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-523547: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at The Mead, Whitchurch, Bath and North-East Somerset, June - July 2017

Cotswold Archaeology
archaeol6-168590: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at Bridge AEB 2117, South Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, December 2013. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-168590: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at Bridge AEB 2117, South Road, Saffron Walden, Essex, December 2013

Archaeology South-East
colchest3-538488: Digital Archive from an Archaeological evaluation of the New Lion Enclosure, Colchester Zoo, Maldon Road, Stanway, Essex, November 2025. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-538488: Digital Archive from an Archaeological evaluation of the New Lion Enclosure, Colchester Zoo, Maldon Road, Stanway, Essex, November 2025

Colchester Archaeological Trust
southwes1-523045: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Survey and Archaeological Watching Brief at Blockhouse Cottages, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, 2021. Copyright: South West Archaeology Ltd
southwes1-523045: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Survey and Archaeological Watching Brief at Blockhouse Cottages, Tresco, Isles of Scilly, 2021

South West Archaeology Ltd
cotswold2-540279: Images from an Analytical Building Recording (Level 3) at 44-46 Moulton Road, Holcot, Northamptonshire, September 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-540279: Images from an Analytical Building Recording (Level 3) at 44-46 Moulton Road, Holcot, Northamptonshire, September 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-540952: Images from a Descriptive Building Recording at 45 High Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, January - May 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-540952: Images from a Descriptive Building Recording at 45 High Street, Warwick, Warwickshire, January - May 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-540300: Images from a Descriptive Building Recording (Level 2) at The Folley Pavilion, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, September 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-540300: Images from a Descriptive Building Recording (Level 2) at The Folley Pavilion, Swindon Road, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, September 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-541843: Images from a Comprehensive Building Survey (Level 4) at Far Thatch, Robins Folly, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, August 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-541843: Images from a Comprehensive Building Survey (Level 4) at Far Thatch, Robins Folly, Thurleigh, Bedfordshire, August 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
allenarc1-522077: Digital Archive from a Trial Trenching at 43 New Street, Blaby, Leicestershire, January 2024. Copyright: Allen Archaeology Limited
allenarc1-522077: Digital Archive from a Trial Trenching at 43 New Street, Blaby, Leicestershire, January 2024

Allen Archaeology Limited
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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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