When performing operations on a collection, we perform several checks around metadata for the collection, such as:

• whether a collection is a time-series collection
• we will have to check whether a time-series collection is a viewless time-series collection
• whether a collection's uuid has changed since we our initial acquisition

This ticket would introduce a lightweight library for storing information around the conditions that we care about and for throwing errors if certain properties have changed (e.g, if the UUID has changed since we began writing to it) so that we do not have to repeatedly look up the collection in the process of performing operations on it