Disciplinary initiatives are required to for the development of common agreed vocabularies and ontologies. Developing these is often a long-term project that requires the establishment suitable structures spanning institutional boundaries and defined by common interests of researchers working in a particular research area.
"[The] solution [...] was the development of common data element and the use of agreed controlled vocabularies. That is something that’s done by some research communities, for instance, gene expression research community formed a society, the MGM society to agree what meta-data to collect [...] the US National Cancer Institute has developed a source that developing to be as comprehensible as possible in anything to do with cancer research [...] So I have been involved in forming an international society to deal with anti-body therapy again to try and develop data standards and models for use in describing research data can be shared effectively, which is a much more complex thing because there are multiple parameters [...] to deal with." (researcher)
