The described database (100) for receiving information, the described
method and information management program (90), and the described apparatus
for receiving and administering information in the form of arbitrarily structured
data sets in at least one storage device of one or more data processing devices,
has hierarchy levels, whereby a superior hierarchy level (119) contains
information elements (111, 112, 113) for the definition of a structure of
information elements (130, 140, 150) of a subordinate hierarchy level (129),
and a subordinate hierarchy level (129) contains information elements (130,
140, 150) in an instantiation (131-136, 141-146, 151-156) in accordance
with the structure which is defined at least by one information element (111,
112, 113) of the superior hierarchy level (119). As a result one obtains
a database (100) having self-defining information.
