FAIRsharing record for: European Data Format 'plus'

This FAIRsharing record describes: After its introduction in 1992, the European Data Format (EDF) became the standard for EEG and PSG (Sleep) recordings. During that time, several users pointed us at its limitations also for application in other fields such as myography, evoked potentials and cardiology. A major limitation was that EDF can only handle uninterrupted recordings. So we simply skipped that limitation but kept all other specifications of EDF intact. While maintaining EDF compatibility, we also standardized most of the labels and added a possibility to save annotations and analysis results. The result is EDF+ and can save most EEG, PSG, ECG, EMG, and Evoked Potential data that can not be saved into common hospital information systems.