Development of Interoperability Principles for Disaster and Emergency Management System of Türkiye

Due to their complex nature, disasters and emergencies require a data-intensive management system in which many actors from different sectors participate and simultaneous processes are managed. Due to this complexity, there are problems in managing and sharing process services and geographic data effectively. The key to solving these problems is the introduction of a complete interoperability model. In this context, interoperability models based on existing international standards are analyzed in this study. FEI and EIF models are taken as basis in terms of disaster and emergency management interoperability requirements. Accordingly, the interoperability reference model was created in legal, organizational, semantic and technical frameworks to meet the interoperability levels. This general framework model has been evaluated in the service and data layers that need to be fully defined in disaster and emergency management phases, and a basic model including interoperability solutions for the service and data model has been created. In this study, an approach for data sharing and presentation has been developed to ensure the interoperability of stakeholders who are responsible for managing the processes at every phase of disaster and emergency management in Turkey. With well-established policy at the legal level, process management information for organizational interoperability will also be available. Data model components at the semantic level and service model components, which also define the sharing rules of data and processes at the technical level, form the basis of the disaster management geographic data infrastructure.