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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
cotswold2-380931: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Former Blundeston Prison, Blundeston, Suffolk, 2020. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-380931: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation and Excavation at Former Blundeston Prison, Blundeston, Suffolk, 2020

Cotswold Archaeology
redriver2-511876: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Bore Hill Farm, Deverill Road, Warminster, Wiltshire, November 2022. Copyright: Red River Archaeology
redriver2-511876: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at Bore Hill Farm, Deverill Road, Warminster, Wiltshire, November 2022

Red River Archaeology
hs2archa1-503705: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2archa1-503705: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2archa1-510038: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2archa1-510038: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 18, Versions Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2infra1-421085: Data from a Blank Area Testing at Manthorn Farm and Land Parcels (AC250), Buckinghamshire, 2020-2021 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2infra1-421085: Data from a Blank Area Testing at Manthorn Farm and Land Parcels (AC250), Buckinghamshire, 2020-2021 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
cotswold2-417031: Site Images and GIS Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Rushbrooks Nursery, The Street, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, 2021. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-417031: Site Images and GIS Data from an Archaeological Evaluation at Rushbrooks Nursery, The Street, Monks Eleigh, Suffolk, 2021

Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-511714: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Mildenhall Hub, Mildenhall, Suffolk, 2016 to 2018 and 2019. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-511714: Digital Archive from Archaeological Investigations at Mildenhall Hub, Mildenhall, Suffolk, 2016 to 2018 and 2019

Cotswold Archaeology
preconst1-416638: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St Felix School, Halesworth Road, Reydon, Suffolk, April 2022. Copyright: Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
preconst1-416638: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St Felix School, Halesworth Road, Reydon, Suffolk, April 2022

Pre-Construct Archaeology Ltd
oxfordar3-415660: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Fen End, Over, Cambridgeshire, August to October 2019. Copyright: Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
oxfordar3-415660: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Fen End, Over, Cambridgeshire, August to October 2019

Oxford Archaeology (Cambridge)
hs2archa1-503705: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 46, North of Ilett's Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One). Copyright: High Speed Two Ltd.
hs2archa1-503705: Data from Fieldwalking and Construction Integrated Recording at Field 46, North of Ilett's Farm, Radstone, West Northamptonshire, 2021-2022 (HS2 Phase One)

High Speed Two Ltd.
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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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