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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
essexsmr1-515856: Images and Vector Drawings from an Analytical Buildings Record (Level 3) at Trestle Viaduct, Wickham Bishops, Maldon, Essex, 2023. Copyright: Place Services
essexsmr1-515856: Images and Vector Drawings from an Analytical Buildings Record (Level 3) at Trestle Viaduct, Wickham Bishops, Maldon, Essex, 2023

Place Services
nmr1-527946: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Clifford's Tower, York, 2014 - 2016. Copyright: Historic England
nmr1-527946: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Clifford's Tower, York, 2014 - 2016

Historic England
molanort1-501491: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at Radstone Fields, Brackley, Northamptonshire, December 2020 - February 2021. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-501491: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Trial Trench Evaluation at Radstone Fields, Brackley, Northamptonshire, December 2020 - February 2021

MOLA Northampton
wessexar1-535057: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Plot 90, Walworth Business Park, Walworth Road, Andover, Hampshire, May 2025. Copyright: Wessex Archaeology
wessexar1-535057: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Plot 90, Walworth Business Park, Walworth Road, Andover, Hampshire, May 2025

Wessex Archaeology
molanort1-520957: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys at Ickworth Park National Trust Estate, Suffolk, July - November 2023. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-520957: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys at Ickworth Park National Trust Estate, Suffolk, July - November 2023

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-518775: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys at Ickworth Park National Trust Estate, Suffolk, July - November 2023. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-518775: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys at Ickworth Park National Trust Estate, Suffolk, July - November 2023

MOLA Northampton
molanort1-513402: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys Along the North Hykeham Relief Road, Lincoln, October - December 2022. Copyright: MOLA Northampton
molanort1-513402: Digital Archive from Geophysical Surveys Along the North Hykeham Relief Road, Lincoln, October - December 2022

MOLA Northampton
universi1-532681: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at 64-66 Market Place, Warwick, Warwickshire, March 2025. Copyright: University of Leicester Archaeological Services
universi1-532681: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at 64-66 Market Place, Warwick, Warwickshire, March 2025

University of Leicester Archaeological Services
preconst1-419310: Digital Archive from an Excavation at The Broadway, Badwell Ash, Suffolk, April 2021. Copyright: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
preconst1-419310: Digital Archive from an Excavation at The Broadway, Badwell Ash, Suffolk, April 2021

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
cotswold2-523556: Digital Archive from an Analytical Building Record, Excavation and Watching Brief at South Quays, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, January 2017 - December 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-523556: Digital Archive from an Analytical Building Record, Excavation and Watching Brief at South Quays, Lower Bristol Road, Bath, Somerset, January 2017 - December 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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