Terminology Database (termbase)

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Guide: https://www.robertjelenic.com/hacking-airtable-to-manage-enterprise-terminology/

Explainer Video: https://youtu.be/CAkoWyLCc90

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Some satisfying benefits

  • The relationship between concepts, terms and concept-term combinations can be enforced and maintained.
  • Airtable has really great built-in search.
  • Adding metadata (including images and other attachments) is a breeze, whereas thatā€™s a more involved exercise in heavier termbase solutions. This lets you get your metadata requirements ironed out with ease.
  • You can get started for free and decide which features and how many users you need. If youā€™re fine with sharing the Airtable termbase with users via a public link (which you can password protect), you can avoid many user accounts.

Drawbacks

  • You can export comma-separated value (CSV) files from the Airtable user interface or probably pull out much more data via the Airtable API (https://airtable.com/developers), but in either case, youā€™ll have to do some work to connect the Airtable termbase to any other tool that needs to ingest it (eg. content governance tools or computer-aided translation tools).
  • There are plenty of features that a terminologist would want to see that Airtable doesnā€™t support. This is meant to follow the 80/20 rule and get you moving in the right direction quickly. It's not meant to compete with industrial-grade terminology software like MultiTerm (https://www.rws.com/translation/software/multiterm).
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Updated July 12, 2021 at 8:27 AM
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Robert Jelenic

Robert is a seasoned international B2B marketing leader based in Germany. Heā€™s held leadership roles in technology, sales and marketing.
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