Jeni, Gregg,
fyi: I have started a discussion on the RDF WG on the general issue of aliases (not only for type) for RDF(S) terms[1]. Let us see where it goes... If there was a more general solution, then a general URI of the form
http://w3.org/rdf/type
or something similar, might be an acceptable, though suboptimal, compromise...
Ivan
[1] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-rdf-wg/2011Nov/0006.html
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