# Information Estate **Domain:** Information Architecture / Personal Infrastructure / Governance **Doc Type:** Canonical Corpus Concept Node **Maturity:** Developing ## Definition An **information estate** is the accumulated body of data, accounts, credentials, archives, communications, intellectual property, systems, domains, relationships and provenance through which a person or organization operates and preserves continuity. ## Personal-Enterprise Context An individual's information estate can reach enterprise scale. The legal boundary around one person does not reduce the number of systems, dependencies or recovery obligations involved. ## See Also [[wiki/Attack Surface|Attack Surface]], [[wiki/Weaponization of Discontinuity|Weaponization of Discontinuity]], [[wiki/Personal Continuity Ontology|Personal Continuity Ontology]], [[wiki/Provenance|Provenance]]