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Name ELAN Annotation File
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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.
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Related file formats Has priority over Extensible Markup Language (1.0)
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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
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