Since its founding in 1990, CIMI has been dedicated to encouraging the use of standards - finding the standard, creating consensus around it, testing it, and disseminating it to the museum community. The whole point of these standards is to make information move. If a museum's information cannot move, the value and the cost-effectiveness of that information is greatly reduced. If information can move, a museum can reach more audiences in more ways - and vastly extend its reach into the world. CIMI members make information move - and their organizations benefit from that.
Standards work, particularly in the digital realm, is never static.
It must evolve. In CIMI's case, the work must also be related to key objectives that make a difference for cultural institutions. It will then investigate the structural, semantic, and syntactic issues related to re-use of it.