The OWL 2 DL imports closure is subject to the prohibition on owl:incompatibleWith imports, while the OWL 2 Full imports closure is not. It is unfortunate that there are two different definitions of imports closure. Ideally they should be instances of a common pattern, or one should be derived from the other. At least there should be some kind of theorem relating them, such as map-to-SS(import-closure(map-to- graph(O))) ~= import-closure(O) for all (DL) ontologies O, and the former is OK iff the latter is. To answer the question in the editor's note in section 3 of the RDF- based semantics document: The answer is yes, this document does have to explain what imports mean, somehow, because imports is part of the OWL 2 vocabulary. Maybe your worry is that imports make a lie of the simple statement that every RDF graph has an OWL 2 Full semantics - i.e. graphs (or graph sets) that are not imports closed are not given a meaning. I don't know how to address this correctly but you're going to have to come to terms with this somehow - either retract the claim that all graphs have a meaning, say that the meaning is not RDF- semantics-like (because it relies on chasing imports), or say that unclosed graphs/ graph sets *do* have some meaning. Best JonathanReceived on Sunday, 1 February 2009 00:27:57 GMT
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