Some time ago we undertook a small project with Wessex Archaeology looking at the possibility of using the OASIS system to deliver small (under 50) image archives associated with the project recorded in OASIS. The project was to look at the delivery ‘in principle’ of images and used rather old-fashioned technologies to affect the transfer.
With the launch of ADS-easy, our new on-line e-archiving system, we have been able to utilise the functionality of ADS-easy to facilitate the quick upload of these small image archives. Continue reading OASIS: new image upload facility
Monthly Archives: April 2014
Where does all the (OASIS) data go? Part 2: OASIS enhances the geophysics survey database
Back in 2012 the ADS archived and released the English Heritage Geophysical Survey Database. It was originally created in 1995 to provide a publicly accessible index of all the geophysical surveys of archaeological sites undertaken by English Heritage. Shortly after its inception its remit was expanded to include information about all surveys carried out over scheduled monuments and protected for which a licence is required under Section 42 of the Ancient Monuments and Archaeological Areas act 1979. A further pilot project in the late 1990s to record details of surveys in England carried out in the commercial and academic sectors added details of over a thousand new surveys to the database. However, it was not possible to continue this project and make the database a fully comprehensive record of English geophysical surveys. Nevertheless, by the end of 2011 the database contained records of more than 2,700 surveys stretching back to the late 1960s. Continue reading Where does all the (OASIS) data go? Part 2: OASIS enhances the geophysics survey database
Where does all the (OASIS) data go? Part 1: An OASIS in the sea…working with the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN).
The guiding principle behind the development of the original OASIS system was to capture event data once and allow its use many times to feed into many recording systems. This principle holds true today, over a decade after the launch of OASIS. It has been demonstrated most recently with the inclusion of OASIS metadata from completed and signed off OASIS records within the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network, or MEDIN, portal. Continue reading Where does all the (OASIS) data go? Part 1: An OASIS in the sea…working with the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN).