more explanations of "collection" meaning

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More information about collections
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"Collection" is a collective term for addressbooks and calendars. Each
collection from a storage has a "collection name", a unique identifier for each
"Collection" is a collective term for addressbooks and calendars. A Cardav or
Caldav server can contains several "collections" which correspond to several
addressbooks or calendar.
Each collection from a storage has a "collection name", a unique identifier for each
collection. In the case of :storage:`filesystem`-storage, this is the name of the
directory that represents the collection, in the case of the DAV-storages this
is the last segment of the URL. We use this identifier in the ``collections``