2368 ELAN Annotation File Text (Structured) 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. 257 03 Nov 2021 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. 22 Apr 2024 application/eaf+xml MIME fmt/1543 PUID eaf File extension 1889 ELAN Annotation File 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 1 Absolute from BOF 27 30 414E4E4F544154494F4E5F444F43554D454E5420{0-256}415554484F523D 1 Absolute from EOF 0 0 3C2F414E4E4F544154494F4E5F444F43554D454E543E(0A|0D|0D0A) Has priority over 638 Extensible Markup Language