diff --git a/manifest.yaml b/manifest.yaml
index ab11445a..7152f354 100644
--- a/manifest.yaml
+++ b/manifest.yaml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ dublin_core:
     - 'Bram van den Heuvel'
     - 'C. Harry Harriss'
   creator: 'Wycliffe Associates'
-  description: 'An unrestricted dynamic Bible'
+  description: "An open-licensed translation, intended to provide a 'functional' understanding of the Bible. It increases the translator's understanding of the text by translating theological terms as descriptive phrases."
   format: 'text/usfm'
   identifier: 'udb'
   issued: '2017-07-05'