What happens to my digital boundary file once the OASIS record is signed off?
As from September 2006, the OASIS form has allowed users to attach a file displaying their site boundary. Files should have been created in a Geographic Information System or CAD package and georeferenced to the British National Grid and should have been zipped into a single file prior to upload. This facility has been provided within OASIS purely as a means to facilitate the flow of data from the contractor to the HER. The Archaeology Data Service will not archive or preserve files that are uploaded in this way. It is assumed that the HER and NMR will take copies of any files they wish to keep at the point at which they validate and sign off the record as a whole. The Archaeology Data Service reserve the right to delete these files 6 months after the associated record has been signed off by the NMR.
