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Details for: ELAN Annotation File

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Summary
Name	ELAN Annotation File
Version
Other names
Identifiers	MIME: application/eaf+xml PUID: fmt/1543
Family
Classification	Text (Structured)
Disclosure
Description	ELAN is a professional software tool to manually and semi-automatically annotate and transcribe audio or video recordings. It was developed by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen. The .eaf file contains the annotations.
Orientation
Byte order
Related file formats	Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
Technical Environment
Released
Supported until
Format Risk
Developed by	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Supported by	Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Source
Source date	03 Nov 2021
Source description	09/2023 (v.115)- MIME Type added 'application/eaf+xml' and modified file type to 'Text (Structured) submitted by the Max Plank Insitute of Phsycholinguisitcs and Monash University. 04/2024 (v.118)- Signature updated to allow flexibility for byte length between tags. Submitted by Preservica based on samples provided by The Endanagered Languages Archive.
Last updated	22 Apr 2024
Note	EAF Specification für Version 3.0 (2017): www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/EAF_Annotation_Format_3.0_and_ELAN.pdf