Analyzing OWL problems in some projects

WOWGers-
  We have been debugging some problems with ontologies created both by 
students in my research group, by some well-known researchers using 
OWL, and from some stuff we found in various places around the web. 
We have found a number of problems of various kinds, but one that 
seems to come up a lot is people using owl:subclassOf, owl:range, and 
owl:domain -- I'm not sure if we have a test that actually exposes 
these -- might be worth creating some to make it more obvious (i.e. 
simple test with 2 forms, one with rdfs:subclassOf and one with 
owl:subclassOf where the latter fails) -- the BBN owl validator 
doesn't catch this error (bug report has been filed) so a test may be 
valuable
  Might also be worth noting this for our forthcoming best practices document..
  -JH
p.s. Our issues list is clear, and our documents make it clear -- 
however, the problem is occuring in practice so we might want to make 
it easier for people to see it is an error

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