1. A computer implemented method for searching, browsing, presenting, and interacting with data assembled from contents of at least one document and any related external data, comprising the steps of: for a document aspect comprising a portion of said document's contents in user viewable form, where said portion is all and only those parts of said at least one document that have something semantically useful in common, and for one or more predetermined document aspect types within said at least one document, performing the following steps: extracting from said at least one document one or more user viewable objects related to said predetermined type in accordance with said document aspect to yield a document aspect instance; for any related external data, extracting from a related external data source one or more user viewable objects related to said predetermined type in accordance with said document aspect; storing said document aspect instance extracted from said at least one document and any user viewable objects extracted from said related external data source, as a user viewable assembled collection in a repository for a subsequent use; and when said document aspect instance is accessed, providing said assembled collection to a user.