Content has a Life Cycle of Creation, Review?, Approval, Workflow, Delivery and Usage? on the visible site, and then Archiving?.

Many CMS experts describe the three phases of Content Management as:

1. Content Creation (including Authoring, Acquisition, and Aggregation)
2. Content Management Proper (Workflow, Editing?, Approval, Staging?, Repository, etc.)
3. Content Delivery (Live Server - Fried or Baked, Publishing, Syndication)

Life Cycle emphasizes the diachronic ephemeral aspect of Content, where the Information Architect emphasizes the synchronic timeless aspects of a design.

Life Cycle has a long history in software development.