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is there any sort of terminology used by web developers to cover how you keep content current - i.e. remove any old irrelevant content, update with new relevant content, update and maintain links etc. <br />
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We have a number of websites developed by 3rd parties and are interested in auditing there web maintenance processes, but I am unsure of the exact wording for this activity - or whether there are any frameworks/best practices checklists web dev teams work towards to keep their sites up to date and current, that we could use as a checklist to see how well they are doing so. If such frameworks and checklists do exist - the details would help no end.
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is there any sort of terminology used by web developers to cover how you keep content current - i.e. remove any old irrelevant content, update with new relevant content, update and maintain links etc. 

We have a number of websites developed by 3rd parties and are interested in auditing there web maintenance processes, but I am unsure of the exact wording for this activity - or whether there are any frameworks/best practices checklists web dev teams work towards to keep their sites up to date and current, that we could use as a checklist to see how well they are doing so. If such frameworks and checklists do exist - the details would help no end.

website content maintenance

Web development includes all aspects of presenting content on intranets and the Internet, including delivery development, protocols, languages and standards, server software, browser clients, databases and multimedia generation.

Web Development

Web development can range from developing the simplest static single page of plain text to the most complex web-based internet applications, electronic businesses, and social network services using a wide variety of languages and standards, including the familiar HTML, JavaScript and jQuery, ASP and ASP.NET, PHP, ColdFusion, CSS, PHP, Flex and Flash, but also the implementation of a broad list of standards including XML, WSDL, SSDL, VoiceXML and many more.

Web Languages and Standards

Web browsers are applications used primarily to display documents, files and media from the Internet, identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) that can be a page, image, video or other file. Some browsers require the use of add-ons or extensions to safely render the information they receive; others have systems built into them to perform the same functions.

Web Browsers

Web applications are systems that run in browsers that perform functions normally associated with other client-based programs. One of the most commonly used web applications is email; instead of downloading individual emails to a local machine, the data is shown through a website. Other examples of web applications are collaborative systems like a wiki or an online game.

Web Applications

Web Components are a set of standards currently being produced by Google engineers as a W3C specification that allow for the creation of reusable widgets or components in web documents and web applications. The intention behind them is to bring component-based software engineering to the World Wide Web. The components model allows for encapsulation and interoperability of individual HTML elements. Support for Web Components is present in Chrome and Opera and is in Firefox (with a manual configuration change). Microsoft's Internet Explorer has not implemented any Web Components specifications yet. Web Components consist of 4 main elements: Custom Elements, Shadow DOM, HTML Imports and HTML Templates.