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Clarify scope of hubverse functionality and document canonical colnames requirements

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Description

Noticed that the standard hubverse columns in hubUtils::std_colnames are different from the ones proposed in https://github.com/CDCgov/forecasttools/pull/102.

My understanding is that forecasttools is built for submissions to cdcepi/FluSight-forecast-hub and CDCgov/covid19-forecast-hub.

If that is true, we should note it somewhere. We should also separately add generic colnames, and colnames for each hub as constants in forecasttools, as is being done in https://github.com/CDCgov/forecasttools/pull/102.

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Start by comparing hubUtils::std_colnames with the canonical columns proposed in forecasttools PR #102, then confirm the intended relationship to the FluSight and COVID-19 forecast hubs. Done means the project scope is documented and generic, FluSight-specific, and COVID-19-specific column-name constants are clearly defined in forecasttools.

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r
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data, documentation
Issue type
Documentation
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Estimated time
1-2 days
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