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+# Welcome, Welcome, Welcome!
+
+This guide you are reading contains:
+
+- a **[high-level introduction](./overview.md)** to the fatcat catalog and
+  software
+- a bibliographic **[style guide](./style_guide.md)** for editors, also useful
+  for understanding metadata found in the catalog
+- technical details and guidance for use of the catalog's
+  **[public REST API](./http_api.md)**, for developers building bots, services,
+  or contributing to the server software
+- **[policies and licensing details](./policies.md)** for all contributors and
+  downstream users of the catalog
+
+## What is Fatcat?
+
+Fatcat is an open bibliographic catalog of written works.  The scope of works
+is somewhat flexible, with a focus on published research outputs like journal
+articles, pre-prints, and conference proceedings. Records are collaboratively
+editable, versioned, available in bulk form, and include URL-agnostic
+file-level metadata.
+
+Both the fatcat software and the metadata stored in the service are free (in
+both the libre and gratis sense) for others to share, reuse, fork, or extend.
+See [Policies](./policies.md) for licensing details, and
+[Sources](./sources.md) for attribution of the foundational metadata corpuses
+we build on top of.
+
+Fatcat is currently used internally at the [Internet Archive](), but interested
+folks are welcome to contribute to it's design and development, and we hope to
+ultimately crowd-source corrections and additional to bibliographic metadata,
+and receive direct automated feeds of new content.
+
+You can contact the Archive by email at <info@archive.org>, or the author
+directly at <bnewbold@archive.org>.
+
+[Internet Archive]: https://archive.org