diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 8707e41..82cd56b 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,8 +1,8 @@
 kram
-docs
-schemas
-test-docs
-test-schemas
+docs/*
+schemas/*
+test-docs/*
+test-schemas/*
 database.db
 test.db
 venv
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 07455bb..7183531 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```
 place the XML files in the `docs` folder or for evaluation purposes few files in the `test-docs` folder.
 
+## Purpose
+The program iterates through the docs dir and in a first run, it builds database schemas from the 
+structure of the XML files, which will be used to create a data model for an SQLlite databse.
+In a second iteration, every node with children or node with a "txt" element will be an entity (beginning with c__)
+all other elements will be attributes (beginning with f__). Entities will be connected with an uuid
+foreign key to their parent entity in relational tables (beginning with r__).
 ## Usage
 To have a test run, place XML-files in a dir named `test-docs`, then type
 ```bash