diff --git a/vortex-dtype/Cargo.toml b/vortex-dtype/Cargo.toml
index 30173843af..8827be6cd2 100644
--- a/vortex-dtype/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex-dtype/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 [package]
 name = "vortex-dtype"
 version = { workspace = true }
-description = "Vortex schema"
+description = "Vortex's core type system"
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }
 authors = { workspace = true }
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ flatbuffers = [
     "dep:vortex-flatbuffers",
     "vortex-error/flatbuffers",
     # enable flatbuffers generated code for scalar
-    "vortex-flatbuffers/dtype"
+    "vortex-flatbuffers/dtype",
 ]
 proto = ["dep:prost", "vortex-proto/dtype"]
 serde = ["dep:serde"]
diff --git a/vortex-schema/Cargo.toml b/vortex-schema/Cargo.toml
index b213ba0cfa..5b0db03767 100644
--- a/vortex-schema/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex-schema/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vortex-schema"
+description = "Vortex file schema abstraction"
 version = { workspace = true }
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }