Sorry for my confusion, if you want to see those markup screens, they're
visible at
http://tagshets.blogspot.com/ .
From: hiddenfir...@live.com
To: general@incubator.apache.org
Subject: Project Idea - TagSheets
Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2014 13:43:02 -0400
I watch Analysts put their data into spreadsheets – Inventory data, bug/issues
data, other miscellaneous data. And see them struggle to fit new types of data
items into their existing set of spreadsheet columns. And see them struggle to
find ways to correlate like-type items (frequently done by creating new columns
to capture relationships). And see them traversing up and down the sheet,
unable to easily surf from one item to a related one.
I think that the world is ready for a more loosely-defined type of “sheet”,
that is to a traditional spreadsheet what a NoSQL database is to a relational
database. Less regimented, more flexible. And, Twitter’s popularity has made
the “Hashtag” concept intuitive to a wide audience. Hence I propose
development of a “TagSheet” mechanism to store data, that captures
relationships between entities by means of associating hashtags to them.
This might quickly fill a niche for users who resist complex tools – who
reflexively reach for spreadsheets when they need to track information. It is
a nice fit for inventory management, to start with.
Attached are two markup screens that show what a TagSheet could look like. I
see it as a small web application, built with Java and JSP, that can run under
any web server. Does anyone think that this concept is one that Apache would
want to develop and promulgate?
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