FRAMEWORK FOR MODELING COLLECTIONS AND THEIR MANAGEMENT

Management of collections of medical documents is provided. In various embodiments, search criteria are specified for one or more datastore. Location information for a plurality of medical documents (e.g. images, textual documents, time series data, etc.) is retrieved from the one or more datastore. The location information for the plurality of medical documents is aggregated into a virtual collection. The virtual collection is indexed by metadata of the virtual collection.