Information Life Cycle

The life cycle of information typically includes the following phases: 

occurrence(discovering, designing, authoring, etc.)

transmission(networking, distributing, accessing, retrieving, transmitting, etc.)

processing and management(collecting, validating, modifying, organizing, indexing, classifying, filtering, updating, sorting, storing, etc.)

usage(monitoring, modelling, analysing, explaining, planning, forecasting, decision-making, instructing, educating, learning, etc.).