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 local/*
 .vscode
 __pycache__
-log
-metadata
+log/*
+!log/README.md
+metadata/*
+!metadata/README.md
 
 # environment
 .env
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+# Log folder
+This folder is used to store logs generated by `ckan2pycsw` script.
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+# ISO19139 Metadata files
+This folder is used to store ISO19139 metadata files (`XML`).
+
+## Usage
+`ckan2pycsw` save your ISO19139 metadata files in this folder by identifier as filename. Each file should correspond to a dataset and its distributions (resources).
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