A method of structuring information comprising digital information, said method comprising: analyzing an original digital information file to determine how many data elements are included in the digital information file, and an original information value associated with each such data element, and thereby an original information quantity and an original information value associated with the original digital information file; applying an initial manipulation process to the original digital information file to form a first resulting digital information file, and applying a subsequent manipulation process to the first resulting digital information file to form a second resulting digital information file, each manipulation process being configured to at least one of remove at least one element of the processed digital information file, and represent a combination of a plurality of elements of the processed digital information file with a representative element and a first indicia associated with an interrelationship between the representative element and at least one of the plurality of elements in the combination, so as to reduce the information quantity of and to structure the processed digital information file, the at least one of the removed element and the representative element being determined to reduce the information value of the processed digital information file by no more than a selected threshold; and successively applying manipulation processes to the previously resulting digital information file until successive manipulation process applications do not achieve a threshold reduction in the information quantity in the subsequent resulting digital information file over the previously resulting digital information file, the last resulting digital information file thereby having a primary structure with a reduced information quantity with respect to the original information quantity and a resulting information value within the selected threshold of the original information value. analyzing an original digital information file to determine how many data elements are included in the digital information file, and an original information value associated with each such data element, and thereby an original information quantity and an original information value associated with the original digital information file; applying an initial manipulation process to the original digital information file to form a first resulting digital information file, and applying a subsequent manipulation process to the first resulting digital information file to form a second resulting digital information file, each manipulation process being configured to at least one of remove at least one element of the processed digital information file, and represent a combination of a plurality of elements of the processed digital information file with a representative element and a first indicia associated with an interrelationship between the representative element and at least one of the plurality of elements in the combination, so as to reduce the information quantity of and to structure the processed digital information file, the at least one of the removed element and the representative element being determined to reduce the information value of the processed digital information file by no more than a selected threshold; and successively applying manipulation processes to the previously resulting digital information file until successive manipulation process applications do not achieve a threshold reduction in the information quantity in the subsequent resulting digital information file over the previously resulting digital information file, the last resulting digital information file thereby having a primary structure with a reduced information quantity with respect to the original information quantity and a resulting information value within the selected threshold of the original information value.