Add historical scenario and hypothetical scenario under infectious disease scenario?

[JohnLevander]

Hi, I’d like to suggest adding two subclasses under infectious disease scenario:

historical scenario
hypothetical scenario

Right now, both seem to fall under the general infectious disease scenario class, but this distinction comes up often in infectious disease modeling and metadata.

Proposed classes

historical scenario
Parent: infectious disease scenario
Definition: An infectious disease scenario that represents or reconstructs an outbreak or epidemic that actually occurred, usually constrained by observed data.

hypothetical scenario
Parent: infectious disease scenario
Definition: An infectious disease scenario that represents a possible, assumed, projected, or counterfactual outbreak or epidemic, and does not need to correspond to a specific observed event.

Why this would help

These two classes would make it easier to annotate and query things like:

retrospective reconstructions of real outbreaks
preparedness/planning scenarios
intervention what-if analyses
counterfactual simulations

Without them, users have to either:

treat both as the same kind of infectious disease scenario, or
create local extension classes for a distinction that seems broadly useful

Example OWL:

<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APOLLO_SV_xxxxxxxx">
    <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APOLLO_SV_00000184"/>
    <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">historical scenario</rdfs:label>
    <obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">
        An infectious disease scenario that represents or reconstructs an outbreak or epidemic that actually occurred, usually constrained by observed data.
    </obo:IAO_0000115>
</owl:Class>

<owl:Class rdf:about="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APOLLO_SV_yyyyyyyy">
    <rdfs:subClassOf rdf:resource="http://purl.obolibrary.org/obo/APOLLO_SV_00000184"/>
    <rdfs:label xml:lang="en">hypothetical scenario</rdfs:label>
    <obo:IAO_0000115 xml:lang="en">
        An infectious disease scenario that represents a possible, assumed, projected, or counterfactual outbreak or epidemic, and does not need to correspond to a specific observed event.
    </obo:IAO_0000115>
</owl:Class>

Thanks for considering!