The ladies at Reiter's Books are quite gracious in cohosting meetups, such as the Washington DC Semantic Web meetup. It was here last Thursday that zAgile had the privilege of presenting its vision related to semantic technologies to an audience of over 30 people. The attendees were fairly diverse but there was a lot of obvious representation from those in the government or representing its interests. I met people from DoD, Agriculture, Library of Congress, Project10X (Mills Davis), etc. Brian Eubanks organizes these events in DC along with Marco Neumann, who came from New York to attend this session. The session was quite interesting and it was great to see the work that guys at Knoodl presented. Knoodl's platform allows for the collaborative development of OWL/RDF based ontologies and knowledgebases. Sharing ideas related to a common set of technologies with people who are exploring from a fairly wide range of interests is quite exciting. It is also great to see the domains in which semantic technologies are now being applied for commercial applications.

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