From Metadata to Miro: Exploring Interactive Business-Friendly Data Modeling

👉 Miro can become a collaborative, user-friendly front-end for metadata-driven modeling — bridging business workshops and technical metadata through a two-way sync.

Summary

Miro can act as a collaborative, user-friendly front-end for business-friendly data modeling.

By building a two-way bridge (Python scripts + API), we can sync metadata ↔ Miro boards.

Benefits: interactive workshops, stakeholder engagement, hybrid workflows with draw.io/VSCode, and traceability.

Challenges: balancing free-form Miro with modeling discipline, ensuring version control, and managing API constraints.

Goal: a modern, agile, hybrid solution where Miro complements metadata-driven engineering.

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Introduction

In earlier articles I have shown how Business-Friendly Mapping (BFM) helps make ETL and data integration transparent and understandable for business users:

• Cooking with Data: How Business-Friendly Mapping Brings Clarity to ETL
• Business-Friendly Mapping in Action — From Sources to Integration