The University of Washington's IT team built its own metadata tool using Neo4j to connect all their metadata and handle the ever-changing schema of the university's data. They found that Neo4j gave them the ability to connect any node to any other node and show that visually, providing context for their metadata. The team uses Neo4j as a metadata repository to stitch together information for the enterprise data warehouse and BI tools, making it easier for end users to visualize and get context for metadata. They have mixed the metadata with other data sources, such as security information and organizational structure, to create new insights and reports. Looking back, they would change their data model to avoid versioning complications that made Cypher queries more difficult. The team believes that better UI tools are needed to allow end users to analyze metadata in a more visual and user-friendly way.