docs: list of repositories that make up Data Workspace

README.md

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 # Data Workspace
 
-Data Workspace is an open source data analysis platform with features for users with a range of technical skills. Features include:
+This is the core repository for Data Workspace, an open source data analysis platform with features for users with a range of technical skills. It contains the source for the [Data Workspace technical documentation](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/), and the Terraform code to deploy Data Workspace into AWS.
 
-- a data catalogue for users to discover, filter, and download data
-- a permission system that allows users to only access specific datasets
-- a framework for hosting tools that allows users to analyse data without downloading it, such as through JupyterLab, RStudio, or Theia (a VS Code-like IDE)
-- dashboard creation and hosting
+> [!TIP]
+> Looking for the Data Workspace Django application? It's now in the [data-workspace-frontend repo](https://github.com/uktrade/data-workspace-frontend).
 
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-Visit the [Data Workspace technical documentation](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/) for details on:
+## Catalogue of Data Workspace repositories
+
+The components of Data Workspace are stored across several Git repositories.
+
+### Core
+
+- [Data Workspace](https://github.com/uktrade/data-workspace) (this repository)
+
+   Contains the Terraform code to deploy Data Workspace in AWS, and the public facing technical documentation for Data Workspace.
+
+- [data-workspace-frontend](https://github.com/uktrade/data-workspace-frontend)
+
+   Contains the core Django application the defines the most user-facing components of Data Workspace. Also contains "the proxy" that sits in front of the Django application that integrates with SSO and routes requests, for example to tools.
+
+   Also contains the Dockerfiles for other components such as GitLab, Superset, MLFlow, and services relating to metrics. However, it's planned to move these out to separate repositories.
+
+
+### Tools
+
+- [data-workspace-tools](https://github.com/uktrade/data-workspace-tools)
+
+  Contains the definitions of the on-demand tools that users can launch in Data Workspace.
+
+
+### Low level
+
+Some of the components of Data Workspace are lower level, and less Data Workspace-specific - they can at least theorically be re-used outside of Data Workspace
+
+- [mobius3](https://github.com/uktrade/mobius3)
+
+   Used in on-demand tools to sync user's files with S3
+
+- [dns-rewrite-proxy](https://github.com/uktrade/dns-rewrite-proxy)
+
+   Used in tools in order to filter and re-write DNS requests
+
+- [theia-postgres](https://github.com/uktrade/theia-postgres)
+
+   Used in Theia to give reasonably straightforward access to a PostgreSQL database
+
+- [ecs-pipeline](https://github.com/uktrade/ecs-pipeline)
+
+   Used to deploy Data Workspace from Jenkins
 
-- [how to run Data Workspace locally](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/development/running-locally/)
-- [the architecture of Data Workspace](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/architecture/components/)
-- [how to deploy Data Workspace to a cloud hosting platform](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/deployment/aws/)
-- [how to contribute to Data Workspace](https://data-workspace.docs.trade.gov.uk/contributing/)