Scientific Societies
- GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik)
- HI (Hochschulverband Informationswissenschaft e.V.)
- DGI (Deutsche Gesellschaft für Informationswissenschaft und Informationspraxis)
- ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)
- SIGIR (Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval)
- SIGAPP (Special Interest Group on Applied Computing)
- ASIS&T (American Society for Information Science and Technology)
- AAAI (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence)
- ASLIB (The Association for Information Management)
- AUAI (Association for Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence)
- BCS IRSG (British Computer Society, Information Retrieval Specialist Group)
- CLEF (Cross-Language Education and Function)
- IEEE Computer Society
- International Society for Knowledge Organization (ISKO)
- TREC (Text Retrieval Conference)
- NTCIR (NII Test Collection for IR Systems)