diff --git a/.idea/copyright/dw_jdbc.xml b/.idea/copyright/dw_jdbc.xml
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-<component name="CopyrightManager">
-  <copyright>
-    <option name="myName" value="dw-jdbc" />
-    <option name="keyword" value="Apache" />
-    <option name="notice" value="/*&#10; * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one&#10; * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file&#10; * distributed with this work for additional information&#10; * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file&#10; * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the&#10; * &quot;License&quot;); you may not use this file except in compliance&#10; * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at&#10; *&#10; *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0&#10; *&#10; * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software&#10; * distributed under the License is distributed on an &quot;AS IS&quot; BASIS,&#10; * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.&#10; * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and&#10; * limitations under the License.&#10; */" />
-  </copyright>
-</component>
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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 5abee59..e4346f2 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -1,2 +1,54 @@
 # dw-jdbc
-JDBC Driver for connecting to data.world
+dw-jdbc is a JDBC driver for connecting to datasets hosted on data.world.
+It can be used to provide read-only access to any dataset provided by data.world
+from any JVM language.  dw-jdbc supports query access both in dwSQL 
+(data.world's SQL dialect) and in SPARQL 1.1, the native query language
+for semantic web data sources.
+
+
+##JDBC URLs
+
+JDBC connects to data source based on a provided JDBC url.  data.world 
+JDBC urls have the form
+
+jdbc:data:world:[language]:[user id]:[dataset id]
+
+where [language] is either "sql" or "sparql",[user id] is the data.world
+id of the dataset owner, and [dataset id] is the data.world identifier for 
+the dataset.
+
+##Sample code (Java 8)
+
+```java
+final String QUERY = "select * from HallOfFame where playerID = ? order by yearid, playerID limit 10"
+final String URL = "jdbc:data:world:sql:dave:lahman-sabremetrics-dataset";
+
+
+try (final Connection connection =    // get a connection to the database, which will automatically be closed when done
+         DriverManager.getConnection(URL, "<your user name>", "<your API token>"); 
+     final PreparedStatement statement = // get a connection to the database, which will automatically be closed when done
+         connection.prepareStatement(QUERY)) {
+    statement.setString(1, "alexape01"); //bind a query parameter
+    try (final ResultSet resultSet = statement.executeQuery()) { //execute the query
+        ResultSetMetaData rsmd = resultSet.getMetaData();  //print out the column headers
+        int columnsNumber = rsmd.getColumnCount();
+        for (int i = 1; i <= columnsNumber; i++) {
+            if (i > 1) System.out.print(",  ");
+            System.out.print(rsmd.getColumnName(i));
+        }
+        System.out.println("");
+        while (resultSet.next()) { //loop through the query results
+            for (int i = 1; i <= columnsNumber; i++) { //print out the column headers
+                if (i > 1) System.out.print(",  ");
+                String columnValue = resultSet.getString(i);
+                System.out.print(columnValue);
+            }
+            System.out.println("");
+        }
+    }
+}
+```
+
+##Building dw-jdbc
+
+dw-jdbc can be built from the command-line using `mvn clean install`.
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diff --git a/src/test/java/world/data/jdbc/SparqlTest.java b/src/test/java/world/data/jdbc/SparqlTest.java
index 5de082e..3cb960c 100644
--- a/src/test/java/world/data/jdbc/SparqlTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/world/data/jdbc/SparqlTest.java
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ public void testConstruct() throws Exception {
         }
         assertThat(lastUri).isEqualTo("http://localhost:3333/sparql/dave/lahman-sabremetrics-dataset?query=CONSTRUCT+%0A++%7B+%0A++++%3Fo+%3Fp+%3Fs+.%0A++%7D%0AWHERE%0A++%7B+%3Fs++%3Fp++%3Fo+%7D%0ALIMIT+++10%0A");
     }
-    
+
     @org.junit.Test
     public void testConstructTurtle() throws Exception {
         resultResourceName = "construct.ttl";