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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
redriver2-528232: Digital Archive from an Evaluation at Twyford Road, Twyford, Derbyshire, August - September 2024. Copyright: Red River Archaeology
redriver2-528232: Digital Archive from an Evaluation at Twyford Road, Twyford, Derbyshire, August - September 2024

Red River Archaeology
archaeol6-389403: Digital Archive from a Trial Trench Evaluation at 2 Maldon Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, January - February 2020. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-389403: Digital Archive from a Trial Trench Evaluation at 2 Maldon Road, Burnham-on-Crouch, Essex, January - February 2020

Archaeology South-East
thearcha4-534038: Images and Text from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Regent Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, March 2025. Copyright: The Archaeology Co.
thearcha4-534038: Images and Text from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Regent Road, Liverpool, Merseyside, March 2025

The Archaeology Co.
thejesso1-527982: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Works at Boosley Grange Field Barn, Fawfieldhead, Staffordshire, September - October 2024. Copyright: TJC Heritage Ltd
thejesso1-527982: Digital Archive from Historic Building Recording Works at Boosley Grange Field Barn, Fawfieldhead, Staffordshire, September - October 2024

TJC Heritage Ltd
thearcha4-532639: Images and Text from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Jarvis Carr Farm, Garstang, Lancashire, July, 2024. Copyright: The Archaeology Co.
thearcha4-532639: Images and Text from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Jarvis Carr Farm, Garstang, Lancashire, July, 2024

The Archaeology Co.
archaeol6-515163: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Wilkin and Sons Jam Factory, Tiptree, Essex, March - April 2023. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-515163: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Wilkin and Sons Jam Factory, Tiptree, Essex, March - April 2023

Archaeology South-East
curaterr1-531889: Digital Archive from a Watching Brief, Trial Trench Evaluation and Mitigation at Ship Inn, Swinton, South Yorkshire, May 2024 - February 2025. Copyright: Cura Terrae
curaterr1-531889: Digital Archive from a Watching Brief, Trial Trench Evaluation and Mitigation at Ship Inn, Swinton, South Yorkshire, May 2024 - February 2025

Cura Terrae
oxfordar1-532131: Digital Archive from an Evaluation at Northern Arc-Eastern Bridge and Link Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex, September - October, 2025. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (South)
oxfordar1-532131: Digital Archive from an Evaluation at Northern Arc-Eastern Bridge and Link Road, Burgess Hill, Sussex, September - October, 2025

Oxford Archaeology (South)
cotswold2-508866: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Shobnall Road, Branston Locks, Staffordshire, November 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-508866: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Shobnall Road, Branston Locks, Staffordshire, November 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-509273: Images and GIS from an Evaluation at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Featherstone, Staffordshire, May 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-509273: Images and GIS from an Evaluation at the Royal Ordnance Factory, Featherstone, Staffordshire, May 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
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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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