diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -6,15 +6,22 @@ Wikidata Toolkit
 [![Maven Central](https://maven-badges.herokuapp.com/maven-central/org.wikidata.wdtk/wdtk-parent/badge.svg)](http://search.maven.org/#search|ga|1|g%3A%22org.wikidata.wdtk%22)
 [![Project Stats](https://www.openhub.net/p/Wikidata-Toolkit/widgets/project_thin_badge.gif)](https://www.openhub.net/p/Wikidata-Toolkit)
 
-This is the Java implementation of the Wikidata Toolkit,
-following the original [Wikibase Toolkit IEG proposal](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit).
+Wikidata Toolkit is a Java library for accessing Wikidata and other Wikibase installations. It can be used to create bots, to perform data extraction tasks (e.g., convert all data in Wikidata to a new format), and to do large-scale analyses that are too complex for using a simple SPARQL query service.
 
-Documentation: [Wikidata Toolkit homepage](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit)
+Documentation
+-------------
 
-API documentation: [Wikidata Toolkit Javadocs](http://wikidata.github.io/Wikidata-Toolkit/)
+* [Wikidata Toolkit homepage](https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidata_Toolkit): project homepage with basic user documentation, including guidelines on how to setup your Java IDE for using Maven and git.
+* [Wikidata Toolkit examples](https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit-Examples): stand-alone Java project that shows how to use Wikidata Toolkit as a library for your own code.
+* [Wikidata Toolkit Javadocs](http://wikidata.github.io/Wikidata-Toolkit/): API documentation
 
-Authors: [Markus Kroetzsch](http://korrekt.org), [Julian Mendez](http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mendez/), [Fredo Erxleben](https://github.com/fer-rum), [Michael Guenther](https://github.com/guenthermi)
+License and Credits
+-------------------
+
+Authors: [Markus Kroetzsch](http://korrekt.org), [Julian Mendez](http://lat.inf.tu-dresden.de/~mendez/), [Fredo Erxleben](https://github.com/fer-rum), [Michael Guenther](https://github.com/guenthermi), [Markus Damm](https://github.com/mardam), and [other contributors](https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit/graphs/contributors)
 
 License: [Apache 2.0](LICENSE.txt)
 
+The development of Wikidata Toolkit has been partially funded by the Wikimedia Foundation under the [Wikibase Toolkit Individual Engagement Grant](https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Grants:IEG/Wikidata_Toolkit), and by the German Research Foundation (DFG) under [Emmy Noether grant KR 4381/1-1 "DIAMOND"](https://ddll.inf.tu-dresden.de/web/DIAMOND/en).
+
 
diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES.md b/RELEASE-NOTES.md
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 Version 0.6.0
 -------------
 
+A new stand-alone example project is now showing how to use WDTK as a library:
+https://github.com/Wikidata/Wikidata-Toolkit-Examples
+
 New features:
 * Support for new Wikidata property type "external identifier"
 * Support for new Wikidata property type "math"