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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
greenlan1-531488: Digital Archive from Archaeological Building Recording at Waddington Hall, Clitheroe Road, Waddington, Lancashire, October 2024 - January 2025. Copyright: Greenlane Archaeology Ltd
greenlan1-531488: Digital Archive from Archaeological Building Recording at Waddington Hall, Clitheroe Road, Waddington, Lancashire, October 2024 - January 2025

Greenlane Archaeology Ltd
cornwall2-536961: Images from Historic Building Recording and an Archaeological Watching Brief at Boswarthen, Sancreed, Cornwall, January 2023 - May 2024. Copyright: Cornwall Archaeological Unit
cornwall2-536961: Images from Historic Building Recording and an Archaeological Watching Brief at Boswarthen, Sancreed, Cornwall, January 2023 - May 2024

Cornwall Archaeological Unit
cotswold2-537765: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Basingstoke Golf Course, Basingstoke, Hampshire, September to November 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-537765: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Basingstoke Golf Course, Basingstoke, Hampshire, September to November 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
molanort1-502035: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Brackmills Point - Decathlon, Brackmills, Northampton, Northamptonshire, January - September 2017. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-502035: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Brackmills Point - Decathlon, Brackmills, Northampton, Northamptonshire, January - September 2017

MOLA Northampton
hs2headl1-526572: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Blackgrounds Farm, Northamptonshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2headl1-526572: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Blackgrounds Farm, Northamptonshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
yorkarch3-507201: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief and Excavation at the Guildhall, Coney Street, York, North Yorkshire, 2018 - 2021. Copyright: York Archaeology
yorkarch3-507201: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Watching Brief and Excavation at the Guildhall, Coney Street, York, North Yorkshire, 2018 - 2021

York Archaeology
hs2headl1-519164: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Blackgrounds Farm, Northamptonshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2headl1-519164: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Blackgrounds Farm, Northamptonshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
cotswold2-536691: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Bretton House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 2017 - 2018. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-536691: Digital Archive from an Excavation at Bretton House, Stow-on-the-Wold, Gloucestershire, 2017 - 2018

Cotswold Archaeology
archaeol27-528656: Images and a Vector from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Oversley Mill Services, Alcester, Warwickshire, July - October 2024. Copyright: Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol27-528656: Images and a Vector from an Archaeological Watching Brief at Oversley Mill Services, Alcester, Warwickshire, July - October 2024

Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol27-506427: Images from a Level 1 Historic Building Recording and a Trial Trench Evaluation at the Former Police Station, The Crescent, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 2021 - 2022. Copyright: Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol27-506427: Images from a Level 1 Historic Building Recording and a Trial Trench Evaluation at the Former Police Station, The Crescent, Bromsgrove, Worcestershire 2021 - 2022

Archaeology Warwickshire
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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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