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 ##About
 
-This project contains the JavaScript source for the operational transformation (OT) engine. The inner workings of the OT API are exposed here.
+This project contains the JavaScript source for the operational transformation
+(OT) engine.
 
-Furthermore, the OT engine is exposed as a library for application programmers who wish to use the underlying OT engine in their applications.
+The OT engine is exposed as a library for application programmers who wish to
+build collaborative groupware applications.
 
 ##Usage
 
-Application programmers wishing to use the OT API can include this project as a maven dependency in their project. The engine is exposed through the use of two primary mechanisms: applying local operations and applying remote operations.
+Application programmers wishing to use the OT API can checkout this project as a
+git repository (or submodule into an already existing git repository), or
+download the code as a tarball and extract into their project.
 
-###Local Operations
-TODO
+Each participating *peer* has its own instance of an operation engine. Each peer
+maintains its own local copy of the collaborative data.
 
-###Remote Operations
-TODO
+The engine is exposed through the use of two primary mechanisms: applying
+local/remote operations and sending/retrieving engine internal data structures.
+Each API call returns a data structure (eg. JSON) that should be forwarded to
+other remote peers exactly as is. Remote peers then send this data structure
+through another API call, which returns an operation that should be applied
+to a local copy of the data.
+
+##Requirements
+
+This OT API library does not provide a mechanism to communicate directly with
+remote peers. Thus, the application programmer is responsible for the
+communication mechanism (eg. hosting a central server to ferry data between
+clients).
 
 ##OpenCoweb
-TODO
+This library was initially started as a part of the
+[OpenCoweb](https://github.com/opencoweb/coweb) project. OpenCoweb provides a
+Java-based server and uses cometd techniques to allow remote peer communication
+and exchange of remote events. OpenCoweb incorporates the OT API to allow
+developers to write collaborative groupware web-based applications.