Objective: The purpose of this study is to identify how libraries and professional scientists can collaborate to enable citizen science, and what value libraries generate by taking part. The study also sets out to develop a framework that can be applied when designing and analyzing such collaboration.  Method: A qualitative and interpretative case study where significant design features, success factors, challenges, and outcomes are captured through interviews with representatives from research libraries, public libraries, and science teams in four citizen science projects. The empiric data is explored through reflexive thematic analysis and further investigated in a comparative analysis. The combined findings are then mapped with a framework for cross-sector collaboration (CFCR). Results: The study indicates that this type of collaboration is need-based and characterized by flexibility, shared goals, mutual benefits, manageable tasks, and shared resources. Additionally, it benefits from internal and external partnerships. Common identified challenges are lack of resources, different agendas, coordination issues, and change management. The findings demonstrate the impact of organizational context and indicate that libraries already largely have the required competence to enable citizen science. Libraries generate value by offering increased outreach/communication, space/training/tools, project design and by acting as gate-ways/intermediators. Libraries gain value in the form of access to scientists, visitor attraction, and future rele-vance. The study results in a proposed framework for citizen science collaboration between libraries and pro-fessional scientists. Conclusion: Research/academic libraries and public libraries are well-positioned to enable citizen science through collaboration with professional scientists, external actors, and with each other. This requires common strategies, clear goals, shared resources, and an ability to adapt to changing needs and circumstances. Libraries can generate and gain value from taking part, especially in the form of greater outreach and future relevance. / Syfte: Att undersöka hur bibliotek och forskare kan samarbeta för att möjliggöra medborgarforskning, och vilken typ av värde bibliotek kan skapa genom att delta i denna typa va projekt. En ytterligare ambition är att utveckla ett ramverk som kan användas vid utformning och analys av denna typ av samarbete. Metod: En kvalitativ, interpretativ fallstudie som identifierar signifikanta designelement, framgångsfaktorer, utmaningar och värden. Empirisk data samlas in genom intervjuer med representanter från forskningsbibliotek, folkbibliotek och forskningsteam i fyra medborgarforskningsprojekt. Källmaterialet undersöks genom tematisk analys och utforskas vidare i en jämförande analys. Det samlade analysresultatet jämförs därefter med ett ramverk för tvärsektoriellt samarbete (CFCR). Resultat: Studien visar att denna typ av samarbete är behovsbaserat och präglas av flexibilitet, gemensamma mål, ömsesidig nytta, hanterbara arbetsuppgifter och gemensamma resurser. Det gynnas också av interna och externa samarbeten. Vanliga utmaningar är resursbrist, olika prioriteringar, samordningsproblem och förändringsledning. Resultaten visar också att samarbetet påverkas av organisatorisk kontext, och att bibliotek till stor del redan har den kompetens som krävs för att möjliggöra medborgarforskning. Bibliotek kan skapa värde genom att erbjuda utökad räckvidd/kommunikation, fysisk plats/utbildning/verktyg, projektdesign, samt genom att fungera som brygga/förmedlare. Biblioteken kan vinna värde i form av forskartillgång, attraktionskraft och möjligheten att bibehålla sin relevans. Analysen resulterar i ett föreslaget ramverk för samarbeten mellan bibliotek och forskare inom området medborgarforskning. Slutsatser: Forskningsbibliotek och folkbibliotek har goda förutsättningar att möjliggöra medborgarforskning genom att samarbeta med forskare, externa aktörer, och med varandra. Det kräver tydliga strategier och mål, delade resurser och förmåga att anpassa sig till nya behov och omständigheter. Genom att delta i denna typ av samarbete kan bibliotek både skapa och vinna värde, i synnerhet i form av utökad räckvidd och framtida relevans.

This thesis proposes a collaboration framework for the Web of Things based on the concepts of Service-oriented Architecture and integrated with semantic web technologies to offer new possibilities in terms of efficient asset management during operations requiring multi-actor collaboration. The motivation for the project comes from the rise in disasters where effective cross-organisation collaboration can increase the efficiency of critical information dissemination. Organisational boundaries of participants as well as their IT capability and trust issues hinders the deployment of a multi-party collaboration framework, thereby preventing timely dissemination of critical data. In order to tackle some of these issues, this thesis proposes a new collaboration framework consisting of a resource-based data model, resource-oriented access control mechanism and semantic technologies utilising the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology that can be used simultaneously by multiple actors without impacting each other’s networks and thus increase the efficiency of disaster management and relief operations. The generic design of the framework enables future extensions, thus enabling its exploitation across many application domains. The performance of the framework is evaluated in two areas: the capability of the access control mechanism to scale with increasing number of devices, and the capability of the semantic annotation process to increase in efficiency as more information is provided. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework is fit for purpose.

This thesis proposes a collaboration framework for the Web of Things based on the concepts of Service-oriented Architecture and integrated with semantic web technologies to offer new possibilities in terms of efficient asset management during operations requiring multi-actor collaboration. The motivation for the project comes from the rise in disasters where effective cross-organisation collaboration can increase the efficiency of critical information dissemination. Organisational boundaries of participants as well as their IT capability and trust issues hinders the deployment of a multi-party collaboration framework, thereby preventing timely dissemination of critical data. In order to tackle some of these issues, this thesis proposes a new collaboration framework consisting of a resource-based data model, resource-oriented access control mechanism and semantic technologies utilising the Semantic Sensor Network Ontology that can be used simultaneously by multiple actors without impacting each other’s networks and thus increase the efficiency of disaster management and relief operations. The generic design of the framework enables future extensions, thus enabling its exploitation across many application domains. The performance of the framework is evaluated in two areas: the capability of the access control mechanism to scale with increasing number of devices, and the capability of the semantic annotation process to increase in efficiency as more information is provided. The results demonstrate that the proposed framework is fit for purpose.