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+#Joomla! Collection, Archives and Repositories (JCar)
 
-Joomla Collections, Archives and Repositories
+## Documentation
+
+User documentation is available at https://www.gitbook.com/book/knowledgearcdotorg/jcar/.
+
+## Build the project with Phing
+
+You will need phing and composer installed to make these next steps work (installing these PHP programs and using them are not covered here).
+
+Before you run phing you will need to copy the build.properties.example file to build.properties and then edit to match your development environment.
+
+Running phing package will create installable packages under the build directory which is created within a local copy of the git code. The following packages are created:
+
+**pkg_jcar.zip:** Contains all the core JCar extensions; the JCar component, the JCar content embed plugin and the JCar button plugin.
+
+**plg_jcar_dspace.zip:** Integrates DSpace records using the KnowledgeArc REST API.
+
+**plg_jcar_oai.zip:** Embeds OAI-compatible records.
+
+Run phing help for all available targets.