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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 The MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2014 Juan Batiz-Benet
+Copyright (c) 2016 Juan Batiz-Benet
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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@@ -1,4 +1,11 @@
-# datastore interface
+# go-datastore
+
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/made%20by-Protocol%20Labs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipn.io)
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/project-IPFS-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://ipfs.io/)
+[![](https://img.shields.io/badge/freenode-%23ipfs-blue.svg?style=flat-square)](http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=%23ipfs)
+[![standard-readme compliant](https://img.shields.io/badge/standard--readme-OK-green.svg?style=flat-square)](https://github.com/RichardLitt/standard-readme)
+
+> key-value datastore interfaces
 
 datastore is a generic layer of abstraction for data store and database access. It is a simple API with the aim to enable application development in a datastore-agnostic way, allowing datastores to be swapped seamlessly without changing application code. Thus, one can leverage different datastores with different strengths without committing the application to one datastore throughout its lifetime.
 
@@ -6,10 +13,21 @@ In addition, grouped datastores significantly simplify interesting data access p
 
 Based on [datastore.py](https://github.com/datastore/datastore).
 
-### Documentation
+## Documentation
 
 https://godoc.org/github.com/jbenet/go-datastore
 
-### License
+## Contribute
+
+Feel free to join in. All welcome. Open an [issue](https://github.com/ipfs/NAME/issues)!
+
+This repository falls under the IPFS [Code of Conduct](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/code-of-conduct.md).
+
+### Want to hack on IPFS?
+
+[![](https://cdn.rawgit.com/jbenet/contribute-ipfs-gif/master/img/contribute.gif)](https://github.com/ipfs/community/blob/master/contributing.md)
+
+## License
 
 MIT
+