Where possible, we should encourage vendors to use existing controlled vocabularies for their submissions. In the marine field, for example, the NERC Vocabulary Server provide a large list of terms for many of the major manufacturers and indexed by major initiatives such as SeaDataNet (see vocab L05).
Not every discipline will have this, of course, but we should always promote interoperability and reuse where possible.
Where possible, we should encourage vendors to use existing controlled vocabularies for their submissions. In the marine field, for example, the NERC Vocabulary Server provide a large list of terms for many of the major manufacturers and indexed by major initiatives such as SeaDataNet (see vocab L05).
Not every discipline will have this, of course, but we should always promote interoperability and reuse where possible.