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Yup, re owl:imports, I enthusiastically added it to the FOAF spec when
some OWL WG insider suggested it was the right thing to use, and
dutifully removed it when someone (I forget who in both cases - quite
possibly same person!) a few years later told me it had fallen from
fashion within the OWL scene.
Re attitudes to OWL ... I do agree there have in the distant past (ie.
last year!) been a few casually dismissive remarks around here regarding
OWL. It's all too easy for a healthy enthusiasm for practical tools to
trick us into seeing tools that we're not so familiar with as
impractical. I'm happy to have read plenty of useful discussion here and
nearby about how best to use or augment owl:sameAs. FOAF is a described
using OWL. I expect some day in the not too distant future, Dublin Core
Terms will be described in OWL too. And the community on
public-lod@w3.org have been excellent champions of both. Things aren't
too polarised, despite the occasional lapses into "them and us"-ism...
Optimistically,
Dan
