CARMA provides advanced filtering capabilities for RAMs (repository access managers), RAM Instances, and containers in CARMA enabled environments by allowing users to pass filter arguments to the RAM. Using filter/views can help expedite performing navigational functions by allowing the RAM to return a smaller set of content for a RAM or container. By default, a CARMA client will request all available resources in a selected RAM. To narrow the results, one or more filter/views may be specified to help sort the content.