
Tom Ensom
@tom_ensom
Digital Conservator — specialising in the long-term preservation of software-based art. He/him.
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http://tomensom.com/ 20-06-2013 10:53:13
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Loving the new version of the Wayback Machine Save Page feature, feels way more responsive. This is such a useful tool — if you're citing web pages, save a copy to the Internet Archive in case the original goes down! web.archive.org/save


Registration and call for proposals are now open! Sound & Vision: Research and AV Heritage hosts the 5th No Time to Wait conference in-person and online from Hilversum, Netherlands Dec 8-10. More at mediaarea.net/NoTimeToWait5 #nttw5


🥽⌛️🌇 Jack McConchie and I have finally published our "Preserving Virtual Reality Artworks" report! It unpacks the key components of VR artworks, explores our prospects for long-term preservation and considers what can be done now. PDF on the Tate website: tate.org.uk/about-us/proje…


Exciting new project from Webrecorder team 👇

Great to see the decision model and data modelling report created as part of V&A's Preserving and Sharing Born Digital and Hybrid Objects project are now online. Congrats, Stephen McConnachie Richard Palmer Tom Ensom! #DigitalPreservation …da-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/03/29/15/… …da-production-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/2022/03/29/15/…



I'm doing a public talk for the The Institute of Fine Arts, NYU 'Topics in Time-based Media Art Conservation' lecture series later this month, on conserving software-based artworks made in game engines. Online, 15:00 ET / 20:00 GMT, 30 November 2022. More info here: mailchi.mp/nyu/topics-in-…



TOMORROW: Preserving Immersive Media Knowledge Building event with Candice Cranmer @giuliacrossi Ian Cooke Jack McConchie and myself. We'll be talking navigating complexity and resourcing in IM preservation. Online 12 December 2023 at 9:00 UK. Register: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist…
