diff --git a/example/README.md b/example/README.md
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+This directory is for example bundles, which are intended to illustrate 
+how to author new software components using Open MCT Web.
diff --git a/platform/README.md b/platform/README.md
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+This directory contains all bundles for the Open MCT Web platform, as well 
+as the framework which runs them.
diff --git a/platform/commonUI/README.md b/platform/commonUI/README.md
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+This directory contains bundles containing common user interface 
+elements of Open MCT Web; that is, the user interface for the application 
+as a whole (as opposed to for specific features) is implemented here. 
diff --git a/platform/core/README.md b/platform/core/README.md
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+This bundle contains core software components of Open MCT Web. These 
+components describe MCT's information model, and are responsible for 
+introducing the API and infrastructure which supports domain objects.
diff --git a/platform/data/README.md b/platform/data/README.md
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+This bundle is responsible for introducing a reusable infrastructure 
+and set of APIs for using time-series data in Open MCT Web.
diff --git a/platform/features/README.md b/platform/features/README.md
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+This directory contains bundles which represent specific user-facing 
+features of Open MCT Web, such as plots and other visualizations. 
+Bundles in this directory should be effectively optional.
diff --git a/platform/forms/README.md b/platform/forms/README.md
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+This bundle contains a general implementation of forms in Open MCT Web. 
+This allows forms to be expressed using a reasonably concise declarative 
+syntax, and rendered as Angular templates in a consistent fashion. 
diff --git a/platform/framework/README.md b/platform/framework/README.md
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+Framework-level components for Open MCT Web. This is Angular and Require, 
+with an extra layer to mediate between them and act as an extension 
+mechanism to allow plug-ins to be introduced declaratively.
+
+
diff --git a/platform/identity/README.md b/platform/identity/README.md
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+This bundle is responsible for introducing identity management features 
+and API to Open MCT Web.
diff --git a/platform/persistence/README.md b/platform/persistence/README.md
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+This bundle implements a connection to an external CouchDB persistence 
+store in Open MCT Web.
diff --git a/platform/representation/README.md b/platform/representation/README.md
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+This bundle introduces the notion of "representations" to Open MCT Web, 
+primarily via an Angular directive, `mct-representation`.
+
+A representation is used to display domain objects as Angular templates.