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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
cotswold2-538053: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Penns Mount, Vicarage Hill, Kingsteignton, Devon, May to August 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-538053: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Penns Mount, Vicarage Hill, Kingsteignton, Devon, May to August 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
aocarcha1-538471: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Marygate, Holy Island, Northumberland, November - December 2004. Copyright: AOC Archaeology Group
aocarcha1-538471: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Marygate, Holy Island, Northumberland, November - December 2004

AOC Archaeology Group
fieldsec1-506165: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Whitford Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, April 2022. Copyright: Worcestershire Archaeology
fieldsec1-506165: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Whitford Road, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire, April 2022

Worcestershire Archaeology
acarchae2-411800: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at Hensbarrow Dry, Porth Farm, Par Moor Road, Par, Cornwall, December 2019. Copyright: AC Archaeology and Heritage Limited
acarchae2-411800: Digital Archive from a Historic Building Recording at Hensbarrow Dry, Porth Farm, Par Moor Road, Par, Cornwall, December 2019

AC Archaeology and Heritage Limited
cotswold2-537746: Image Archive from a Historic Building Recording at the Barn of the Old Rectory, Alpheton, Suffolk, July 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-537746: Image Archive from a Historic Building Recording at the Barn of the Old Rectory, Alpheton, Suffolk, July 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-536171: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at the Theatre Royal, Saw Close, Bath, November 2019 and January 2025. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-536171: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at the Theatre Royal, Saw Close, Bath, November 2019 and January 2025

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-385810: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Aspire (Albert House), 103-104 Temple Street and 111-117 Victoria Street, Bristol, 2015-2016. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-385810: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Aspire (Albert House), 103-104 Temple Street and 111-117 Victoria Street, Bristol, 2015-2016

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-538053: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Penns Mount, Vicarage Hill, Kingsteignton, Devon, May to August 2021. Copyright: AC Archaeology and Heritage Limited
cotswold2-538053: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Penns Mount, Vicarage Hill, Kingsteignton, Devon, May to August 2021

AC Archaeology and Heritage Limited
universi1-333764: Site Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Glenwood Avenue, Wollaton, Nottingham, December 2017. Copyright: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
universi1-333764: Site Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at St. Thomas More Roman Catholic Church, Glenwood Avenue, Wollaton, Nottingham, December 2017

University of Leicester Archaeological Services
stephenh1-536119: Photographs from Descriptive Building Recording at the Punch Bowl Inn, Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire, 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-536119: Photographs from Descriptive Building Recording at the Punch Bowl Inn, Burton in Lonsdale, North Yorkshire, 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.

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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