docs: cleanup README

Author: ndr-brt

CONTRIBUTING.md

@@ -1,4 +1,15 @@
-# Federated Catalog
+# EDC Federated Catalog
+
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+
+---
 
 The Federated Catalog (FC) represents the aggregated catalogs of multiple participants in a dataspace. To achieve that,
 the FC employs a set of crawlers, that periodically scrape the dataspace requesting the catalog from each participant in
@@ -13,6 +24,11 @@ handling etc., while adding specific functionality using the EDC extensibility m
 
 This repository contains all components needed to build and run a standalone version of the Federated Catalog.
 
+## Documentation
+
+Base documentation can be found on the [documentation website](https://eclipse-edc.github.io). \
+Developer documentation can be found under [docs/developer](docs/developer/README.md).
+
 ## Quick start
 
 A basic launcher configured with in-memory stores (i.e. no persistent storage) can be
@@ -78,16 +94,11 @@ detail [here](docs/developer/architecture/federated-catalog-apis.md).
 - Generalization of the Crawler class
 - Additional informational endpoints to the [Catalog API](docs/developer/architecture/federated-catalog-apis.md)
 
-## Other documentation
-
-Developer documentation can be found under [docs/developer](docs/developer), where the main concepts and decisions are
-captured as [decision records](docs/developer/decision-records).
-
 ## References
 
 - Decentralized Claims Protocol (DCP): https://projects.eclipse.org/projects/technology.dataspace-dcp
 - EDC Connector: https://github.com/eclipse-edc/Connector
 
 ## Contributing
 
-See [how to contribute](https://github.com/eclipse-edc/docs/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) for details.
+See [how to contribute](https://github.com/eclipse-edc/eclipse-edc.github.io/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md).