| Jim Lindner is an internationally
respected authority on the preservation and migration
of magnetic media. Jim pioneered many of the techniques
now commonly used for videotape restoration and
has lectured widely on and written about media preservation
for the past twenty-five years. Jim founded the
magnetic media restoration company VidiPax in 1992
and acted as the Chief Executive Officer before
stepping down after selling the company in 2001.
While at VidiPax Jim oversaw the video restoration
of some most prestigious collections in country
including: The NBC News Archive, Children’s
Television Workshop, The Coca Cola Company, IBM,
AT&T, The Library of Congress, The National
Archives, The Smithsonian Institute, The Metropolitan
Opera, The New York Public Library, and The Andy
Warhol Foundation.
In 1995 Jim won the Anthology Film Archives prestigious
Preservation Award for his pioneering work in
the field of Magnetic Tape Restoration and Preservation.
His many articles on the subject of media preservation
and restoration have been published in many of
the most respected trade and organization publications
including: Society of American Archivists, National
Media Laboratory, Association of Moving Image
Archives, Video Magazine, American Management
Association, Print Magazine, Millimeter Magazine,
Videography, Educational Film Library Association
Magazine. Jim has been written about in several
feature articles including those published in
The New York Times, Television Broadcasting Magazine
and Medialine.
In 1997 Jim acted as a witness and panelist for
the Library of Congress’ “State of
American Television,” an in-depth inquiry
in to the state of videotape preservation in the
United States. In 1999 Jim founded the National
Television & Video Preservation Foundation,
nationally respected for assisting many of the
country’s archives in preserving their videotape
collections. Currently Jim sits on the Executive
Board of SEAPAVAA and is an active participant
in SMPTE and ANSI standards committees, along
with the Association of Moving Image Archives
and International Federation of Television Archives,
or FIAT. In 1997 Jim served as Chairman of the
Board of the Anthology Film Archives.
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