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@@ -12,10 +12,18 @@ Port and enhance contribution from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation
 [CELLxGENE](https://cellxgene.cziscience.com/) project.
 
 This is not a one-for-one migration of the contributed code. Substantial changes have
-been made to the package utility (e.g., multi-GPU support), improve API usability, etc.
+been made to the package utility (e.g., multi-GPU support), improved API UX, etc.
 
 ### Added
 
+- Initial project organization and other scaffolding [PR #4](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/4)
+- Simple, non-shuffling Dataset/DataPipe implementation [PR #6](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/6)
+- Add CI workflows [PR #7](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/7)
+- Add a DataLoader creation wrapper function [PR #8](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/8)
+- Add shuffling support [PR #9](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/9)
+- Add first draft of tutorial notebooks [PR #10](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/10)
+- Archive script used to populate the repo commit history [PR #11](https://github.com/single-cell-data/TileDB-SOMA-ML/pull/11)
+
 ### Changed
 
 ### Fixed
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+
+# tiledbsoma_ml
+
+A Python package containing ML tools for use with `tiledbsoma`.
+
+## Description
+
+The package currently contains a prototype PyTorch `IterableDataset` for use with the
+[`torch.utils.data.DataLoader`](https://pytorch.org/docs/stable/data.html#torch.utils.data.DataLoader)
+API.
+
+## Getting Started
+
+### Installing
+
+Install using your favorite package installer.  For example, with pip:
+
+> pip install tiledbsoma-ml
+
+Developers may install editable, from source, in the usual manner:
+
+> pip install -e .
+
+### Documentation
+
+TBD
+
+## Builds
+
+This is a pure Python package. To build a wheel, ensure you have the `build` package installed, and then:
+
+> python -m build .
+
+## Version History
+
+See the [CHANGELOG.md](CHANGELOG.md) file.
+
+## License
+
+This project is licensed under the MIT License.
+
+## Acknowledgements
+
+The SOMA team is grateful to the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Foundation [CELLxGENE Census](https://cellxgene.cziscience.com)
+team for their initial contribution.