Strasbourg IHU Knowledge Base: A CERIF Implementation

Strasbourg IHU is a surgical centre dedicated to the management of digestive diseases, specialized in minimally invasive technologies. This organisation produces and aggregates large amounts of information, which needs to be shared within IHU. This organisation decided to create a dedicated digital service to fulfil three goals: share information stored within a knowledge base, get up-to-date pertinent news about the minimally invasive surgery sector, and allow interactions among the large variety of profiles (experts, surgeons, companies, etc.).IS4RI is a structure that supports the design, development, integration and use of information systems to help research and innovation. IS4RI implemented CERIF as a data structure for the knowledge base, using a web-based platform and dedicated specific modules to integrate the market watch and social networking functions.This paper describes the analysis and realisation phases of the project, with a focus on the use of CERIF as a structure for a knowledge base.