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Although owl:imports and namespace declarations may appear redundant, they actually serve different purposes. Namespace declarations simply set up a shorthand for referring to identifiers. They do not implicitly include the meaning of documents located at the URI. On the other hand, owl:imports does not provide any shorthand notation for referring to the identifiers from the imported document. Therefore, it is common to have a corresponding namespace declaration for any ontology that is imported.
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