Format
ELAN Annotation File
Summary
- Name
- ELAN Annotation File
- Identifiers
-
- MIME: application/eaf+xml
- PUID: fmt/1543
- Format type
- Text (Structured)
- 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.
- Note
- EAF Specification für Version 3.0 (2017): www.mpi.nl/tools/elan/EAF_Annotation_Format_3.0_and_ELAN.pdf
- File extensions
-
eaf - Source
- German National Library of Science and Technology
- Developed by
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
- Supported by
- Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen
Relationships
- Has priority over
Internal signatures
ELAN Annotation File
- Note
- Magic bytes, BOF; Offset: 27-56; Magic Bytes: 'ANNOTATION_DOCUMENT' {0-256} 'AUTHOR='; EOF; Offset: 0; Magic Bytes: '</ANNOTATION_DOCUMENT>' followed by either 0x0A, 0x0D, 0x0D0A
Byte sequences
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from BOF
- Offset
- 27
- Max offset
- 30
- Byte Sequence
414E4E4F544154494F4E5F444F43554D454E5420{0-256}415554484F523D- Endianness
- None
- Min Frag Length
- Absolute from EOF
- Offset
- 0
- Max offset
- 0
- Byte Sequence
3C2F414E4E4F544154494F4E5F444F43554D454E543E(0A|0D|0D0A)- Endianness
- None
Changelog
-
Updated in V118
- Release date
- 30 April 2024
Elan Annotation File: Signature updated to allow flexibility in number of bytes between tags. Submitted by Preservica based on format samples provided by The Endangered Languages Archive.
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Added in V100
- Release date
- 16 December 2021
ELAN Annotation File: Signature researched and samples provided by German National Library of Science and Technology.
ELAN Annotation File: Full entry added. Submitted by German National Library of Science and Technology.