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 AusMT is enabled by AuScope and the Australian Government via the National Collaborative Research
-Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). Built with the Australian MT community, it is a national catalogue
+Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). 
+
+Built with the Australian MT community, it is a national catalogue
 of magnetotelluric transfer functions, carrying the provenance, licence and citation details of
-each one. This is the **framework monorepo** (see `maintainer/ADR-001-repo-structure.md`): an
-offline build engine, a static portal, and a curated submission gateway. Survey packages
-(EDI + `survey.yaml`) are validated, parsed with the community mt_metadata/mth5 toolchain, and
-served as a browsable, citable catalogue. Development happens at `bvkay/ausmt`;
+each one. 
+
+This is an offline build engine, a static portal, and a curated submission gateway. 
+Survey packages (EDI + `survey.yaml`) are validated, parsed with the community mt_metadata/mth5 
+toolchain, and served as a browsable, citable catalogue. Development happens at `bvkay/ausmt`;
 `AuScope/ausmt` is the release mirror.
 
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