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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
suffolka1-232230: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Guildhall Feoffment Primary School, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 2015 to 2016. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
suffolka1-232230: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Guildhall Feoffment Primary School, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, 2015 to 2016

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-414077: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-414077: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020

Cotswold Archaeology
preconst1-387157: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Number 8 The Street, Darsham, Suffolk, November 2020. Copyright: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
preconst1-387157: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Number 8 The Street, Darsham, Suffolk, November 2020

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
archaeol40-526616: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Bradford Road, Trowbridge, July 2024. Copyright: Archaeology England Limited
archaeol40-526616: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Bradford Road, Trowbridge, July 2024

Archaeology England Limited
cotswold2-385557: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-385557: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020

Cotswold Archaeology
albionar1-282504: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Cambridge Road, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, 2016 - 2017. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-282504: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Cambridge Road, Fenstanton, Cambridgeshire, 2016 - 2017

Albion Archaeology
cotswold2-515760: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-515760: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluations and Excavations at Horizon 120 and West of the A131, London Road, Great Notley, Braintree, Essex, 2019-2020

Cotswold Archaeology
preconst1-511290: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Redwald Road, Rendlesham, Suffolk, November 2022. Copyright: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
preconst1-511290: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Redwald Road, Rendlesham, Suffolk, November 2022

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
albionar1-177938: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Manor Farm, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 2014 - 2019. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-177938: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Manor Farm, Market Harborough, Leicestershire, 2014 - 2019

Albion Archaeology
oxfordar1-531252: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset, September 2019. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-531252: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Longforth Farm, Wellington, Somerset, September 2019

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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