Information and Data in Allergology: Theoretical and Methodological Proposals for Building a Knowledge Organization Model dedicated to the Design of Info-communication Devices

International audienceAllergy is a major health issue in our society in terms of care and prevention. Several actors play a role in dealing with such condition, including health professionals, public authorities, and patients. Healthcare providers from the Allergy Unit of the University Hospital of Montpellier (France) need to access this information to analyse and identify trends in allergic diseases. However, the heterogeneous nature of the information makes this work complex. Such heterogeneity concerns the form but also the level of speech and the terminology used. Identification of knowledge in the field and its organization is therefore crucial to propose adapted devices, which allow to analyse this information, to share it between specialists and to consider a mediation towards non-specialized actors, including patients. The aim of our lecture is therefore to present the ALLERGIDOC interdisciplinary project, which involves the specialists in fields of medicine, epidemiology, engineering, and information and communication science. Such project consists on the study and organization of available Allergy-related information and data. In our communication, we will focus mainly on considered methodology for the development of a knowledge organization model in this domain. A constructive feedback from the ISKO community and some advices on how to develop the project will be more than welcome