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 Description
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+Ishtar is a database project for managing archaeological data and documentation (including archaeological finds) from archaeological operations, published as a free software under AGPL 3.0 or any later version license.
+
+The aim is to ensure maximum traceability of the information, in order to make this documentation live and make it even possibly accessible to the public or to user groups.
+
+This software is intended to be installed on a web server but can operate locally, at the scale of an excavation site, a town or an entire region.
+
+Designed to enable inter-database communication, the Ishtar project aims rather to a distributed information model than a centralized one: communication between the databases is favored.
+
+It is organized around a common core associated with modules linked to specific professional needs: administration of operations and inventories, archaeological warehouses, treatments related to restoration laboratories, advanced stratigraphic analysis, QR-code labeling, etc.
+
+Multiple levels of users are possible, from a public access (or not) to access for researchers, operations managers, warehouses managers, GIS connection, etc.
+
 A full description of this project and news about Ishtar are available on this [website](http://www.ishtar-archeo.net).
 
+Contribution
+------------
+
+Ishtar is in constant development. Ishtar is a participatory project, so do not hesitate to share your needs on the [forum](http://forum.ishtar-archeo.net) and we'll see what we can do!
+
 Docs
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 Ishtar
 ======
 
+|build status| |doc status| |PyPI version|
+
+Description
+-----------
+
+Ishtar is a database project for managing archaeological data and
+documentation (including archaeological finds) from archaeological
+operations, published as a free software under AGPL 3.0 or any later
+version license.
+
+The aim is to ensure maximum traceability of the information, in order
+to make this documentation live and make it even possibly accessible to
+the public or to user groups.
+
+This software is intended to be installed on a web server but can
+operate locally, at the scale of an excavation site, a town or an entire
+region.
+
+Designed to enable inter-database communication, the Ishtar project aims
+rather to a distributed information model than a centralized one:
+communication between the databases is favored.
+
+It is organized around a common core associated with modules linked to
+specific professional needs: administration of operations and
+inventories, archaeological warehouses, treatments related to
+restoration laboratories, advanced stratigraphic analysis, QR-code
+labeling, etc.
+
+Multiple levels of users are possible, from a public access (or not) to
+access for researchers, operations managers, warehouses managers, GIS
+connection, etc.
+
 A full description of this project and news about Ishtar are available
 on this `website <http://www.ishtar-archeo.net>`__.
 
+Contribution
+------------
+
+Ishtar is in constant development. Ishtar is a participatory project, so
+do not hesitate to share your needs on the
+`forum <http://forum.ishtar-archeo.net>`__ and we'll see what we can do!
+
 Docs
 ----
 
 Documentation is not yet available but help can be provided on the
 `forum <http://forum.ishtar-archeo.net>`__.
+
+.. |build status| image:: https://gitlab.com/iggdrasil/ishtar/badges/master/build.svg
+   :target: https://gitlab.com/iggdrasil/ishtar/commits/master
+.. |doc status| image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/ishtar/badge/?version=latest
+   :target: http://ishtar.readthedocs.io/fr/latest/
+.. |PyPI version| image:: https://badge.fury.io/py/ishtar.svg
+   :target: https://badge.fury.io/py/ishtar