diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index c7630e0..b7e251e 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 name = "ais"
 version = "0.11.0"
 authors = ["Kevin R <sweetpea-git@tentacle.net>"]
-description = "An AIS parser library"
+description = "An Automatic Identification System (AIS) parser library"
 homepage = "https://github.com/squidpickles/ais"
 repository = "https://github.com/squidpickles/ais.git"
 documentation = "https://docs.rs/ais"