Implement saving/loading of persistent values to configure multiple views

[nmwsharp]

Desired workflow: The user programmatically configures several "views" of their data, each of which corresponds to a different collection of settings (stuff which is enabled, etc). The user wants to quickly switch between these views without clicking a bunch.

How to get there: We could get this fairly easily by leveraging the persistent value caches. Work items would be:

• define a serialization format for persistent values (in-memory for now)
• add a storeConfiguration() function or something, which saves the state of all persistent values to an internal list
• add a loadConfiguration() function which restores persistent values
• buttons in the GUI, etc

This has significant overlap with things we would want to do regardless to enable serialization more broadly.