diff --git a/encodings/datetime-parts/Cargo.toml b/encodings/datetime-parts/Cargo.toml
index a5e073c6f5..4fb251e41e 100644
--- a/encodings/datetime-parts/Cargo.toml
+++ b/encodings/datetime-parts/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vortex-datetime-parts"
+description = "Vortex physical encoding that compresses temporal components individually"
 version = { workspace = true }
 edition = "2021"
 license = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/vortex-datafusion/Cargo.toml b/vortex-datafusion/Cargo.toml
index be1f217ebd..38696fbc11 100644
--- a/vortex-datafusion/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex-datafusion/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vortex-datafusion"
+description = "Apache Datafusion integration for Vortex"
 version = { workspace = true }
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }
diff --git a/vortex-flatbuffers/Cargo.toml b/vortex-flatbuffers/Cargo.toml
index 509f73f4ec..e8e2848283 100644
--- a/vortex-flatbuffers/Cargo.toml
+++ b/vortex-flatbuffers/Cargo.toml
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 [package]
 name = "vortex-flatbuffers"
+description = "Flatbuffers definitions for Vortex types"
 version = { workspace = true }
 homepage = { workspace = true }
 repository = { workspace = true }