Unfortunately, multiple informal subdomain-specific isolated terminological 'silos' where disparate terminology is used for similar concepts are also arising as rapidly.
Variations in implementation frameworks include the presence of disparate terminology and classification of implementation concepts.
Several authors have identified that the use of mutual terminology for disparate activities can lead to controversy [ 5- 9].
Today, an overwhelming amount of drug safety-relevant information is being generated and stored in a wide array of disparate information sources using differing terminologies at a faster pace than ever before.
Another challenge lies in the disparate and often highly technical use of terminology, symbols, and acronyms in both fields.
Moreover, disparate concepts are sometimes described using the same terminology.
The objective of a large-scale health information infrastructure is to unify the health information collected and maintained by many disparate individual organizations that may use unique and incompatible terminology.
These include differences in the reporting of recruitment, enrolment, and retention information; inconsistencies in the use of terminology across studies and the complexity of the literature which covers disparate samples of socio-demographic compositions, different diseases and study types.
Further, the disparate streams of Japanese Pure Land thought stand as distinctive understandings, often employing their own characteristic terminology, of an already highly evolved Buddhist tradition, and a grasp of them often requires a recognition of the tensions between received tradition and reinterpretation that they manifest.
The barrier to computational use of these data has been the disparate and non-standardized way of describing human phenotypic data, which has traditionally relied on free text or terminologies designed for medical management, billing and epidemiology (Schofield et al., 2010).
