The Consortium for Computer Interchange of Museum Information (CIMI) was an initiative for museum IT standards under the auspices of the

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(CNI). The CIMI project was started in 1990 by the US-based Museum Computer Network (MCN) and operated as a committee of MCN. It aimed to develop a standards framework to help museums in exchanging data and providing standard databases. This was published in MCN's ''Spectra''. CIMI's project managers included Cary Karp and John Perkins.

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