File format lab

Here are the example files we'll use in the file formats lab:

Text documents

• The pretest as a generic document: Pretest
• The pretest as a Word document: Pretest.doc
• The pretest as a DOS (ascii) text document: Pretest_dos.txt
• The pretest as a unicode text document: Pretest_uni.txt
• The pretest as a mac text document: Pretest_mac.txt
• The pretest as a unix text document: Pretest_unix.txt

Spreadsheet data

• Text data as plain text: test_data
• Text data as a tab-delimited file: test_data_tab.txt
• Text data as a comma separated values file: test_data_comma.csv

A useful, free text editor

• SciTE, based on the Scintilla open source editing framwork: http://scintilla.sourceforge.net/SciTE.html

Reference Managers

Commercial (ThomsonISI)

• EndNote, personal bibliographic software
• ProCite, personal bibliographic software
• Reference Manager, personal bibliographic software
• WriteNote, web-based shared bibliography database

Free/open source

• Papyrus, DOS/Windows personal bibliographic manager
• JabRef, cross-platform Java-based (1.4.2) personal bibliographic manager, Lyx integration, Bibtex format
• The Bibliographic component of Open Office

Consumer Health Informatics Lab

Deb Lewis's presentation: ConsumerHealthPathology.ppt

HTML Practice

Introductory HTML slides: HTML.PPT

Clinical case text document: HTML_case.txt

Class description text document: class_page.txt

XML Documents

XML lab procedure: PTPTT.xml

Procedure "language" DTD: PTDTD.dtd

Stylesheet for procedures: PTPTT.xsl