Blogging machines is a very cool idea.

I attended a meeting recently at which someone raised the idea of XML schemas for instrument output. This was with respect to structural genomics projects, where researchers would like to capture data from various instruments and pipe it into workflows, LIMS and so on.

It struck me that this might make a good open science project. Clearly, no one lab has access to every make of instrument but collectively, the "labs of the world" have many instruments. If we could encourage people to submit a sample output file from instruments in their lab to a repository, with some descriptive data (instrument name, make, whether file is binary/ASCII, what fields are in the file), perhaps we could set about designing these XML schemas.

Might make a good OWW project, what do you think?