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 # CiteBase.jl
 
+Core ideas of the CITE architecture:
 
+- abstract URN type
+- functions to extract top-level components and parts of components
+- definition of citable objects
 
-Build Docstrings:  within `docs` directory, run
+
+To build Docstrings:  within `docs` directory, run
 
 ```
 julia  --color=yes make.jl