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Avoid creating owl:propertyChainAxiom like properties

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I reference OWL Property Chains since they seem to be a formal way of defining some of properties current draft of interop vocab proposes.

I would like to take for example interop:applicationAuthor and interop:applicationAuthorName. I don't understand need for such flattening. Instead of having

<https://app.example/>
  interop:applicationAuthor <https://alice.example/> ;
  interop:applicationAuthorName "Alice" .

We could simply go with

<https://app.example/>
  interop:applicationAuthor <https://alice.example/> .
<https://alice.example/>
  foaf:name "Alice" .

It seems that vocab tries to define following property chain

interop:applicationAuthorName owl:propertyChainAxiom  ( interop:applicationAuthor foaf:name ) .

I don't see reason for adding such properties to the vocab, especially that we don't intend to rely on OWL reasoning.

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Start with the issue's OWL Property Chains reference and compare the proposed interop:applicationAuthor and interop:applicationAuthorName examples with the nested foaf:name model. Review the current interop vocabulary to identify the affected properties; done means reaching and documenting a decision on whether the flattened properties should remain.

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