Format

Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture

Summary

Name

Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture

Identifiers

PUID: x-fmt/11

Format type

Word Processor

Description

The Document Content Architecture, (DCA for short) is a standard developed by IBM for text documents in the early 1980s. DCA was used on mainframe and iSeries systems, and formed the basis of DisplayWrite's file format. DCA was later extended as MO:DCA (Mixed Object Document Content Architecture), which added embedded data files, like graphics.

Source

Digital Preservation Department / The National Archives

Changelog

• Updated in V83

  Release date

  17 December 2015

  Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture: Added description.

• Updated in V68

  Release date

  1 May 2013

  Revisable-Form-Text Document Content Architecture: Removed format extension 'Unknown' as part of a data normalisation exercise.