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The ELN file format has been defined as an archive format to capture Electronic Laboratory Notebooks (ELN).

An ELN archive is a ZIP file with the .eln extension, containing a single root folder which is an RO-Crate.

The ELN specification is based on the RO-Crate specification and is exported by Lab notebook software including eLabFTW

ELN archives can be previewed in Dataverse.

ELN implementations and examples

Implementation .eln import .eln export Example
eLabFTW elabftw
Kadi4Mat kadi4mat
Pasta PASTA
SampleDB SampleDB
Rspace RSpace
NOMAD    

Table adapted from TheELNConsortium/TheELNFileFormat