1. A computer implemented method executed by a knowledge management computing device for evaluating a plurality of document collections, comprising: providing a plurality of documents in a documents database in computer storage; collecting, by the knowledge management computing device, from said documents database a plurality of document collections, each said document collection being a subset of said plurality of documents having non-unique values on a shared attribute; identifying, by the knowledge management computing device, one or more founders of said plurality of document collections by rating one or more individuals associated earliest with one or more documents of said plurality of document collections, wherein the rating is based on a frequency of workflow actions of the one or more individuals, performed on the plurality of documents, evaluated over a fixed time period following a creation of a first created document of said one or more documents, wherein the workflow actions include editing, responding to, creating, and approving one or more of said one or more documents previously created and authored by another individual; adding the one or more founders to a list of founders until a number of founders are in the list, the number of founders being a tunable parameter; applying weighting factors to the one or more founders to determine a degree of foundership; ranking the one or more founders based upon, at least in part, the degree of foundership; and displaying said list of one or more founders on a computer display apparatus.