Today Adapting to technology takes time.
You're in a difficult position if you need to implement a technology when it has already become a necessity, without having had the time to prepare for it and see how it fits into your information strategy. Current awareness means knowing today the pieces that will form part of the puzzle tomorrow. You can't be sure exactly what the puzzle will look like, but you know what the key elements are. CIMI was doing ground-breaking work on distributed search and retrieval of digital information and sharing the results with its members long before other communities were even thinking about having their data powerfully searchable across different platforms and systems. Our members benefited from a detailed presentation by a leading expert on how virtual museum exhibitions are being and will be launched.