Date: Jun. 4, 2000
Link: http://pioneer.gsfc.nasa.gov/public/aiml/
Source Author or Organization: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Century Computing

Astronomical Instrument Markup Language (AIML) is a domain-specific implementation of the more generalized Instrument Markup Language (IML). AIML is an instrument description that encompasses instrument characteristics, control commands, data stream descriptions (including image and housekeeping data), message formats, communication mechanisms, and pipeline algorithm descriptions. It was developed to command and control astronomical instruments.