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Airtable for research metadata
March 27, 2018

Airtable for research metadata

Uri Laserson | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Airtable

I manage my lab's metadata in Airtable.
  • Airtable enables you to have a relational database with a flexible easy-to-use frontend that's compatible with spreadsheets and stored in the cloud.
  • Enforcing uniqueness constraints and using hidden primary keys.
  • More centralized location for storing metadata. Helps ensure it doesn't get out of sync across researchers in my lab.
Airtable actually provides relational semantics. Many people use spreadsheets as databases, which is not really what they're designed for. Alternatively, SQL databases have a higher overhead than Airtable.
Any time you will be storing metadata in Excel spreadsheets, Airtable will almost certainly be an improvement. Also has the advantage over Google Sheets that you get relational semantics (i.e., linking keys).

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