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Collections are implemented in many ways, depending on the purpose they serve and their implementation environment. We approach collections as entity containers and, from principles discovered through our structural computing work, we propose a metainformatical view of generalized collections, and a theoretical framework for discussing collection variations. Included in the framework is the idea of accessing generalized collection content through views, with support for multiple views per collection. The importance of associating semantics with both collections and the views of their content is noted, as are techniques for preserving those semantics. Set, bag, array, and relational table implementations are shown to fit into this framework. The paper closes with a summary of the advantages of our approach, along with a discussion of future and related work.