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The online system for reporting investigations into the historic environment and linking research outputs and archives.
cotswold2-521622: Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavation at Marham Park, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 2016 to 2017. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-521622: Digital Archive from Archaeological Excavation at Marham Park, Fornham All Saints, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, 2016 to 2017

Cotswold Archaeology
aerialca1-536329: Digital Archive from Photogrammetric Landscape Survey Work at Westfield House, Kibworth, Leicestershire, August 2025. Copyright: SUMO Geophysics
aerialca1-536329: Digital Archive from Photogrammetric Landscape Survey Work at Westfield House, Kibworth, Leicestershire, August 2025

SUMO Geophysics
archaeol6-506894: Digital Archive from a Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Evaluation at Bawdsey Manor, Bawdsey, April 2022. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-506894: Digital Archive from a Geoarchaeological and Archaeological Evaluation at Bawdsey Manor, Bawdsey, April 2022

Archaeology South-East
stephenh1-531795: Digital Archive from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Hoyle Bottom Farm, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, February 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-531795: Digital Archive from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Hoyle Bottom Farm, Oswaldtwistle, Lancashire, February 2025

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-533593: Digital Archive from a Descriptive Buildings Record (level 2) at Beehive Mill, Moor Lane, Darwen, Lancashire, April, 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-533593: Digital Archive from a Descriptive Buildings Record (level 2) at Beehive Mill, Moor Lane, Darwen, Lancashire, April, 2025

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
archaeol6-502000: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St. Margaret's Crescent, Leiston, Suffolk, June 2021. Copyright: Archaeology South-East
archaeol6-502000: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Evaluation at St. Margaret's Crescent, Leiston, Suffolk, June 2021

Archaeology South-East
stephenh1-530782: Digital Archive from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Lakeland Farm, Anderton, Lancashire, January 2025. Copyright: Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
stephenh1-530782: Digital Archive from an Analytical Buildings Record (level 3) at Lakeland Farm, Anderton, Lancashire, January 2025

Stephen Haigh Buildings Archaeologist
cotswold2-531842: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance, Meppershall Water Pipeline, Central Bedfordshire, May to June 2023. Copyright: Cotswold Archaeology
cotswold2-531842: Digital Archive from an Archaeological Excavation at Anglian Water Strategic Pipeline Alliance, Meppershall Water Pipeline, Central Bedfordshire, May to June 2023

Cotswold Archaeology
archaeol5-530348: Digital Archive from a Strip, Map and Sample Excavation at Stafford Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, May 2024. Copyright: Archaeological Research Services Ltd
archaeol5-530348: Digital Archive from a Strip, Map and Sample Excavation at Stafford Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, May 2024

Archaeological Research Services Ltd
networka2-534839: Digital Archive from a Watching Brief at Waterloo Kiln, Swinton, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, October 2024. Copyright: Network Archaeology Ltd
networka2-534839: Digital Archive from a Watching Brief at Waterloo Kiln, Swinton, Rotherham, South Yorkshire, October 2024

Network Archaeology 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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