As the Distributed Collection Manager's work on building tools to support
users maintaining collections of changing web-based resources has progressed,
questions about the characteristics of people's collections of web pages have
arisen. Simultaneously, work in the areas of social bookmarking, social news,
and subscription-based technologies have been taking the existence, usage, and
utility of this data for granted with neither investigation into what people
are doing with their collections nor how they are trying to maintain them.