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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
headland4-211229: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Hall Barn Road, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, June 2015. Copyright: Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd
headland4-211229: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Hall Barn Road, Isleham, Cambridgeshire, June 2015

Headland Archaeology (UK) Ltd
molanort1-510730: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at St Christophers Drive, Oundle, Northamptonshire, March to April 2022. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-510730: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at St Christophers Drive, Oundle, Northamptonshire, March to April 2022

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-517285: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief at Old Coopers, Lodge Lane, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, 2022 - 2023. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-517285: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief at Old Coopers, Lodge Lane, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, 2022 - 2023

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-507174: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief at Old Coopers, Lodge Lane, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, 2022 - 2023. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-507174: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Watching Brief at Old Coopers, Lodge Lane, Long Buckby, Northamptonshire, 2022 - 2023

MOLA Northampton
colchest3-532287: Digital Archive from Analytical Historic Building Recording (Level 3) at Fairfields Farm, Mowden Hall Lane, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, February 2025. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-532287: Digital Archive from Analytical Historic Building Recording (Level 3) at Fairfields Farm, Mowden Hall Lane, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, February 2025

Colchester Archaeological Trust
oxfordar3-384491: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation Work at Gateway Peterborough, Plots 400 and 210, Great Haddon, Peterborough, 2018 to 2019. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology
oxfordar3-384491: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation Work at Gateway Peterborough, Plots 400 and 210, Great Haddon, Peterborough, 2018 to 2019

Oxford Archaeology
vindomor1-532685: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Shields Barn, Bail Hill Road, Mickleton, Barnard Castle, County Durham, March 2025. Copyright: Vindomora Solutions Ltd
vindomor1-532685: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Shields Barn, Bail Hill Road, Mickleton, Barnard Castle, County Durham, March 2025

Vindomora Solutions Ltd
vindomor1-534255: Images from Level 3 Analytical Historic Building Recording at MRS Training & Rescue Station, Hetton Road, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, April 2025. Copyright: Vindomora Solutions Ltd
vindomor1-534255: Images from Level 3 Analytical Historic Building Recording at MRS Training & Rescue Station, Hetton Road, Houghton-le-Spring, Tyne and Wear, April 2025

Vindomora Solutions Ltd
vindomor1-532901: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Priory Grove Methodist Church, South Church, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, March 2025. Copyright: Vindomora Solutions Ltd
vindomor1-532901: Images from Level 2 Descriptive Historic Building Recording at Priory Grove Methodist Church, South Church, Bishop Auckland, County Durham, March 2025

Vindomora Solutions Ltd
colchest3-531965: Digital Archive from Analytical Historic Building Recording (Level 3) and Monitoring at Rye Cottage, Larks Lane, Great Waltham, Essex, March 2025. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-531965: Digital Archive from Analytical Historic Building Recording (Level 3) and Monitoring at Rye Cottage, Larks Lane, Great Waltham, Essex, March 2025

Colchester Archaeological Trust
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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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