diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2c6aad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+.tox
+AUTHORS
+ChangeLog
+doc/build
+*egg-info
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 466b242..2a8892d 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -3,9 +3,9 @@ Service Types Authority
 =======================
 
 The following is a central authority for handing out service types to
-projects.
+projects for their services.
 
-OpenStack Projects with REST APIs must have a well known service type.
+Each OpenStack Service with a REST API must have a well known service type.
 The well known service type guarantees a documented API is available
 for that service. Users of this service can trust that it will be the
 same between different OpenStack environments.
@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ Attributes
 
 The following attributes are required for a service type registration:
 
+service-type (required)
+-----------------------
+
+The unique identifier for the service to be used in the service catalog.
+
 project (required)
 ------------------
 
@@ -44,7 +49,7 @@ Naming
 Service types should be:
 
 - English words
-- Be matched by the regex [a-z\-]+
+- Be matched by the regex ^[a-z][a-z-]+$
 - Be meaningful
 - Not use terms which are incredibly overloaded in OpenStack space
   (i.e. policy)
diff --git a/doc/source/README.rst b/doc/source/README.rst
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..c768ff7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/README.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../README.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4721189
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,258 @@
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
+#
+# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
+# autogenerated file.
+#
+# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
+# serve to show the default.
+
+import datetime
+import subprocess
+import sys
+import os
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+# -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#needs_sphinx = '1.0'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
+# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
+extensions = ['oslosphinx']
+
+# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
+templates_path = ['_templates']
+
+# The suffix of source filenames.
+source_suffix = '.rst'
+
+# The encoding of source files.
+#source_encoding = 'utf-8-sig'
+
+# The master toctree document.
+master_doc = 'index'
+
+# General information about the project.
+project = u'Service Types Authority'
+copyright = u'%s, OpenStack API Working Group Team' % datetime.date.today().year
+
+# The language for content autogenerated by Sphinx. Refer to documentation
+# for a list of supported languages.
+#language = None
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+#today_fmt = '%B %d, %Y'
+
+# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
+# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
+exclude_patterns = [
+    '_build',
+]
+
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
+#default_role = None
+
+# If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
+#add_function_parentheses = True
+
+# If true, the current module name will be prepended to all description
+# unit titles (such as .. function::).
+add_module_names = False
+
+# If true, sectionauthor and moduleauthor directives will be shown in the
+# output. They are ignored by default.
+show_authors = False
+
+# The name of the Pygments (syntax highlighting) style to use.
+pygments_style = 'sphinx'
+
+# A list of ignored prefixes for module index sorting.
+modindex_common_prefix = []
+
+# -- Options for man page output ----------------------------------------------
+man_pages = []
+
+# -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
+# a list of builtin themes.
+html_theme = 'nature'
+
+# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
+# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
+# documentation.
+#html_theme_options = {}
+
+# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
+#html_theme_path = []
+
+# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
+# "<project> v<release> documentation".
+#html_title = None
+
+# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
+#html_short_title = None
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
+# of the sidebar.
+#html_logo = None
+
+# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
+# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
+# pixels large.
+#html_favicon = None
+
+# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
+# using the given strftime format.
+git_cmd = ["git", "log", "--pretty=format:'%ad, commit %h'", "--date=local",
+           "-n1"]
+html_last_updated_fmt = subprocess.Popen(
+    git_cmd, stdout=subprocess.PIPE).communicate()[0]
+
+# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
+# typographically correct entities.
+#html_use_smartypants = True
+
+# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
+#html_sidebars = {}
+
+# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
+# template names.
+#html_additional_pages = {}
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+html_domain_indices = False
+
+# If false, no index is generated.
+html_use_index = False
+
+# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
+#html_split_index = False
+
+# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
+#html_show_sourcelink = True
+
+# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_sphinx = True
+
+# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
+#html_show_copyright = True
+
+# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
+# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
+# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
+#html_use_opensearch = ''
+
+# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
+#html_file_suffix = None
+
+# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
+htmlhelp_basename = 'ServiceTypesAuthority'
+
+
+# -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------------
+
+latex_elements = {
+# The paper size ('letterpaper' or 'a4paper').
+#'papersize': 'letterpaper',
+
+# The font size ('10pt', '11pt' or '12pt').
+#'pointsize': '10pt',
+
+# Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
+#'preamble': '',
+}
+
+# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
+latex_documents = [
+  ('index', 'service-types-authority.tex', u'API Working Group',
+   u'OpenStack API Working Group Team', 'manual'),
+]
+
+# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
+# the title page.
+#latex_logo = None
+
+# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
+# not chapters.
+#latex_use_parts = False
+
+# If true, show page references after internal links.
+#latex_show_pagerefs = False
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#latex_show_urls = False
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#latex_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#latex_domain_indices = True
+
+# -- Options for Texinfo output ------------------------------------------------
+
+# Grouping the document tree into Texinfo files. List of tuples
+# (source start file, target name, title, author,
+#  dir menu entry, description, category)
+# texinfo_documents = []
+
+# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
+#texinfo_appendices = []
+
+# If false, no module index is generated.
+#texinfo_domain_indices = True
+
+# How to display URL addresses: 'footnote', 'no', or 'inline'.
+#texinfo_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+
+# -- Options for Epub output ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# Bibliographic Dublin Core info.
+epub_title = u'Service Types Authority'
+epub_author = u'OpenStack API Working Group Team'
+epub_publisher = u'OpenStack API Working Group Team'
+epub_copyright = u'%s, OpenStack API Working Group Team' % datetime.date.today().year
+
+# The language of the text. It defaults to the language option
+# or en if the language is not set.
+#epub_language = ''
+
+# The scheme of the identifier. Typical schemes are ISBN or URL.
+#epub_scheme = ''
+
+# The unique identifier of the text. This can be a ISBN number
+# or the project homepage.
+#epub_identifier = ''
+
+# A unique identification for the text.
+#epub_uid = ''
+
+# A tuple containing the cover image and cover page html template filenames.
+#epub_cover = ()
+
+# HTML files that should be inserted before the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_pre_files = []
+
+# HTML files shat should be inserted after the pages created by sphinx.
+# The format is a list of tuples containing the path and title.
+#epub_post_files = []
+
+# A list of files that should not be packed into the epub file.
+#epub_exclude_files = []
+
+# The depth of the table of contents in toc.ncx.
+#epub_tocdepth = 3
+
+# Allow duplicate toc entries.
+#epub_tocdup = True
diff --git a/doc/source/index.rst b/doc/source/index.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..92569f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/index.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+.. include:: README.rst
+
+Service Data
+============
+
+The :download:`Service Types Authority <service-types.yaml>` information is
+kept in downloadable form in YAML.
+
+.. literalinclude:: service-types.yaml
+    :language: yaml
+
+It is described by a :download:`Service Types Authority Schema <schema.json>`.
+
+.. literalinclude:: schema.json
+    :language: json
diff --git a/doc/source/schema.json b/doc/source/schema.json
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..3a5f772
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../schema.json
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/doc/source/service-types.yaml b/doc/source/service-types.yaml
new file mode 120000
index 0000000..58957d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doc/source/service-types.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+../../service-types.yaml
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..64853bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+hacking
+jsonschema
+PyYAML>=3.10.0  # MIT
+oslosphinx>=4.7.0  # Apache-2.0
+sphinx>=1.5.1  # BSD
diff --git a/schema.json b/schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8c954f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-04/schema#",
+  "id": "https://specs.openstack.org/openstack/service-types-authority/_downloads/schema.json#",
+  "type": "object",
+  "required": ["services"],
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "properties": {
+    "services": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "$ref": "#/definitions/service"
+      }
+    }
+  },
+   "definitions":{
+      "service":{
+         "properties": {
+            "service_type": {
+               "type":"string",
+               "pattern":"^[a-z][a-z-]+$",
+               "description": "The unique identifier for the service to be used in the service catalog"
+            },
+            "project": {
+               "type":"string",
+               "description": "An OpenStack git project that contains the definition of the API"
+            },
+            "api_reference": {
+               "type":"string",
+               "format": "url",
+               "description": "A published API reference document for the API identified by this service type."
+            },
+            "description": {
+               "type":"string",
+               "description": "A short description about the service in question."
+            },
+            "aliases": {
+               "type": "array",
+               "items": {
+                 "type": "string",
+                 "pattern": "^[a-z]+$"
+               },
+               "description": "An ordered list of historical aliases for this service type."
+            }
+         },
+         "additionalProperties":false,
+         "required":[
+            "api_reference",
+            "project",
+            "service_type"
+         ]
+      }
+   }
+}
diff --git a/service-types.yaml b/service-types.yaml
index aa453f3..6888533 100644
--- a/service-types.yaml
+++ b/service-types.yaml
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
 services:
-  identity:
-    project: openstack/keystone
-    # TODO(sdague): this should be an overall pointer to the service
-    # API, this is just a subset.
-    api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/identity/v3/index.html
-  compute:
-    project: openstack/nova
-    api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/
-  image:
-    project: openstack/glance
-    api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/image/
-  load-balancer:
-    project: openstack/octavia
-    api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/load-balancer/
-  object-store:
-    project: openstack/swift
-    api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/object-storage/
+- service_type: identity
+  project: openstack/keystone
+  # TODO(sdague): this should be an overall pointer to the service
+  # API, this is just a subset.
+  api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/identity/v3/index.html
+- service_type: compute
+  project: openstack/nova
+  api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/compute/
+- service_type: image
+  project: openstack/glance
+  api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/image/
+- service_type: load-balancer
+  project: openstack/octavia
+  api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/load-balancer/
+- service_type: object-store
+  project: openstack/swift
+  api_reference: http://developer.openstack.org/api-ref/object-storage/
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..d1b01a2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+[metadata]
+name = service_types_authority
+summary = OpenStack Service Types Authority
+description-file =
+    README.rst
+author = OpenStack
+author-email = openstack-dev@lists.openstack.org
+home-page = http://git.openstack.org/cgit/openstack/service-types-authority
+classifier =
+    Environment :: OpenStack
+    Intended Audience :: Information Technology
+    Intended Audience :: System Administrators
+    License :: OSI Approved :: Apache Software License
+    Operating System :: POSIX :: Linux
+
+[egg_info]
+tag_build =
+tag_date = 0
+tag_svn_revision = 0
+
+[build_sphinx]
+all_files = 1
+build-dir = doc/build
+source-dir = doc/source
+
+[wheel]
+universal = 1
+
+[pbr]
+# Treat sphinx warnings as errors during the docs build; this helps us keep
+# the documentation clean.
+warnerrors = true
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..782bb21
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2013 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# THIS FILE IS MANAGED BY THE GLOBAL REQUIREMENTS REPO - DO NOT EDIT
+import setuptools
+
+# In python < 2.7.4, a lazy loading of package `pbr` will break
+# setuptools if some other modules registered functions in `atexit`.
+# solution from: http://bugs.python.org/issue15881#msg170215
+try:
+    import multiprocessing  # noqa
+except ImportError:
+    pass
+
+setuptools.setup(
+    setup_requires=['pbr>=1.8'],
+    pbr=True)
diff --git a/tox.ini b/tox.ini
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3371e05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tox.ini
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+[tox]
+minversion = 1.6
+envlist = pep8,validate,docs
+skipdist = True
+
+[testenv]
+install_command = pip install -U {opts} {packages}
+setenv =
+   VIRTUAL_ENV={envdir}
+deps = -r{toxinidir}/requirements.txt
+
+[testenv:validate]
+deps = jsonschema
+commands =
+  python validate.py
+
+[testenv:pep8]
+deps = hacking
+commands = flake8
+
+[testenv:docs]
+commands = python setup.py build_sphinx
+
+[testenv:venv]
+commands = {posargs}
+
+[flake8]
+show-source = True
+builtins = _
+exclude=.venv,.git,.tox,dist,doc,*lib/python*,*egg,build
diff --git a/validate.py b/validate.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b84d4d0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/validate.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+# Copyright (c) 2017 Red Hat, Inc.
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#    http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or
+# implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+import json
+import sys
+
+import jsonschema
+import yaml
+
+
+def main():
+    ret = 0
+    schema = json.load(open('schema.json', 'r'))
+    validator = jsonschema.Draft4Validator(schema)
+    data = yaml.load(open('service-types.yaml', 'r'))
+    for error in validator.iter_errors(data):
+        print(error.message)
+        ret = 1
+    return ret
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    sys.exit(main())