I’ve encountered the following situation a few times when trying to cross-reference information from multiple sources.
In short, I’m creating a row for each source, with the source name in one of the columns. Then I can compare the data from multiple sources. I now want to set one row as definitive or authoritative.
For example, a bibliography. My base contains lists of books taken from multiple sources. Some books are mentioned several times. This is useful, as I can compare e.g. source notes. However, I want to mark one of the rows as the definitive entry.
At the moment, my approach is to have a column with a checkbox called ‘Duplicate’. I am hiding these ‘duplicates’ in an Airtable view.
I’m not sure this is the best approach.
I could perhaps tick the ‘best’ version and send that to another table within the base? Where I can amend the data?
The desired outcome from the bibliography example is a table with a consolidated, clean list of books.
I should mention also that the aim is to grow the bibliography over time, so a one-off dedupe is not ideal, but could be done.
