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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
archaeol11-537995: Images from a Building Survey at Chevet Grange, Wakefield, May 2025. Copyright: Archaeological Services WYAS
archaeol11-537995: Images from a Building Survey at Chevet Grange, Wakefield, May 2025

Archaeological Services WYAS
archaeol27-524104: Images from Historic Building Recording Work at The Royal Oak, Eydon, Northamptonshire, March 2024. Copyright: Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol27-524104: Images from Historic Building Recording Work at The Royal Oak, Eydon, Northamptonshire, March 2024

Archaeology Warwickshire
archaeol3-531615: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Recording at Skipbridge Farm, Darlington, January 2025. Copyright: Archaeological Services Durham University
archaeol3-531615: Images from a Descriptive Buildings Recording at Skipbridge Farm, Darlington, January 2025

Archaeological Services Durham University
archaeol11-538399: Images from a Buildings Recording And Investigation at Laughton Common Farm, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, June 2025. Copyright: Archaeological Services WYAS
archaeol11-538399: Images from a Buildings Recording And Investigation at Laughton Common Farm, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, June 2025

Archaeological Services WYAS
edenheri1-531265: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Bungalow, Lathom Park, Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, February 2025. Copyright: Eden Heritage Ltd
edenheri1-531265: Images from an Archaeological Watching Brief at The Bungalow, Lathom Park, Lathom, Ormskirk, Lancashire, February 2025

Eden Heritage Ltd
colchest3-529847: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation at 67-70 North Hill, Colchester, Essex, December 2024. Copyright: Colchester Archaeological Trust
colchest3-529847: Digital Archive from Archaeological Evaluation at 67-70 North Hill, Colchester, Essex, December 2024

Colchester Archaeological Trust
albionar1-511851: Site Data from an Archaeological Excavation at Linmere Development, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, January - February 2023. Copyright: Albion Archaeology
albionar1-511851: Site Data from an Archaeological Excavation at Linmere Development, Houghton Regis, Bedfordshire, January - February 2023

Albion Archaeology
archaeol5-531152: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Tamworth Solar Farm, Staffordshire, December 2024 and January 2025. Copyright: Archaeological Research Services Ltd
archaeol5-531152: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Tamworth Solar Farm, Staffordshire, December 2024 and January 2025

Archaeological Research Services Ltd
hs2headl1-526797: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Ellesborough Road, Wendover Green Tunnel, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2headl1-526797: Data from a Construction Integrated Recording at Ellesborough Road, Wendover Green Tunnel, Wendover, Buckinghamshire, 2022-2023 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
archaeol6-505586: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation And Excavation at Chantry Vale/Wolsey Grange, Sproughton, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2015-2020. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-505586: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation And Excavation at Chantry Vale/Wolsey Grange, Sproughton, Ipswich, Suffolk, 2015-2020

Archaeology South-East
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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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