diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+*.py[cod]
+target
+*~
+#*
+doc/source/schemas/*.avpr
+build
+
+#********** windows template**********
+
+# Windows image file caches
+Thumbs.db
+
+# Folder config file
+Desktop.ini
+
+# Recycle Bin used on file shares
+$RECYCLE.BIN/
+
+
+#********** osx template**********
+
+.DS_Store
+
+# Thumbnails
+._*
+
+# Files that might appear on external disk
+.Spotlight-V100
+.Trashes
+
+
+#********** linux template**********
+
+.*
+!.gitignore
+*~
+
+# KDE
+.directory
+
+
+#********** emacs template**********
+
+*~
+\#*\#
+/.emacs.desktop
+/.emacs.desktop.lock
+.elc
+auto-save-list
+tramp
+.\#*
+
+# Org-mode
+.org-id-locations
+*_archive
+
+
+#********** vim template**********
+
+.*.sw[a-z]
+*.un~
+Session.vim
+
+
+#********** maven template**********
+
+target/
+
+#********** Travis CI **********
+
+!.travis.yml
+
+#********** IntelliJ files ******
+*.iml
+
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
+    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
+    <groupId>org.ga4gh</groupId>
+    <artifactId>beacon</artifactId>
+    <packaging>jar</packaging>
+    <version>0.3-SNAPSHOT</version>
+
+    <name>Beacon</name>
+    <description>Beacon data models and APIs</description>
+    <url>https://github.com/ga4gh/beacon-team</url>
+    <inceptionYear>2014</inceptionYear>
+    <organization>
+        <name>Global Alliance for Genomics and Health</name>
+        <url>http://genomicsandhealth.org</url>
+    </organization>
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>The Apache Software License, Version 2.0</name>
+            <url>http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.txt</url>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+    <scm>
+        <connection>scm:git:https://github.com/ga4gh/beacon-team</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:https://github.com/ga4gh/beacon-team</developerConnection>
+        <url>https://github.com/ga4gh/beacon-team</url>
+    </scm>
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <name>GA4GH developers</name>
+            <url>https://github.com/orgs/ga4gh/people</url>
+            <organization>Global Alliance Data Working Group</organization>
+            <organizationUrl>http://ga4gh.org/</organizationUrl>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
+
+    <properties>
+        <avro.version>1.8.0</avro.version>
+        <maven.enforcer.jdk-version>[1.6,)</maven.enforcer.jdk-version>
+        <maven.enforcer.maven-version>[3.0.4,)</maven.enforcer.maven-version>
+        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
+        <project.build.targetEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.targetEncoding>
+    </properties>
+
+    <build>
+        <pluginManagement>
+            <plugins>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>avro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>${avro.version}</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-clean-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.6.1</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>3.3</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-deploy-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.8.2</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.4</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>1.6</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-install-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.5.2</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-jar-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.6</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.9.1</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <detectLinks>true</detectLinks>
+                        <quiet>true</quiet>
+                        <linksource>true</linksource>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-release-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.5.1</version>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <autoVersionSubmodules>true</autoVersionSubmodules>
+                        <useReleaseProfile>false</useReleaseProfile>
+                        <releaseProfiles>release</releaseProfiles>
+                        <goals>deploy</goals>
+                    </configuration>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.7</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.4</version>
+                </plugin>
+                <plugin>
+                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
+                    <version>2.18.1</version>
+                </plugin>
+            </plugins>
+        </pluginManagement>
+        <plugins>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+                <artifactId>avro-maven-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>schemas</id>
+                        <phase>generate-sources</phase>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>schema</goal>
+                            <goal>protocol</goal>
+                            <goal>idl-protocol</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/resources/avro</sourceDirectory>
+                            <stringType>String</stringType>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-enforcer-plugin</artifactId>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                        <id>enforce-java</id>
+                        <goals>
+                            <goal>enforce</goal>
+                        </goals>
+                        <configuration>
+                            <rules>
+                                <requireMavenVersion>
+                                    <version>${maven.enforcer.maven-version}</version>
+                                </requireMavenVersion>
+                                <requireJavaVersion>
+                                    <version>${maven.enforcer.jdk-version}</version>
+                                </requireJavaVersion>
+                            </rules>
+                        </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
+        </plugins>
+    </build>
+    <dependencyManagement>
+        <dependencies>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+                <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
+                <version>${avro.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+                <artifactId>avro-ipc</artifactId>
+                <version>${avro.version}</version>
+            </dependency>
+        </dependencies>
+    </dependencyManagement>
+    <dependencies>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+            <artifactId>avro</artifactId>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.avro</groupId>
+            <artifactId>avro-ipc</artifactId>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+        </dependency>
+    </dependencies>
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <url>https://oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+    <profiles>
+        <profile>
+            <id>release</id>
+            <build>
+                <plugins>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                                <phase>verify</phase>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>sign</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>attach-javadocs</id>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>jar</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                    <plugin>
+                        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                        <artifactId>maven-source-plugin</artifactId>
+                        <executions>
+                            <execution>
+                                <id>attach-sources</id>
+                                <goals>
+                                    <goal>jar-no-fork</goal>
+                                </goals>
+                            </execution>
+                        </executions>
+                    </plugin>
+                </plugins>
+            </build>
+        </profile>
+    </profiles>
+</project>
diff --git a/schema/beacon.avdl b/src/main/resources/avro/beacon.avdl
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rename from schema/beacon.avdl
rename to src/main/resources/avro/beacon.avdl
diff --git a/schema/beaconmethods.avdl b/src/main/resources/avro/beaconmethods.avdl
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rename from schema/beaconmethods.avdl
rename to src/main/resources/avro/beaconmethods.avdl
diff --git a/schema/consentcode.avdl b/src/main/resources/avro/consentcode.avdl
similarity index 100%
rename from schema/consentcode.avdl
rename to src/main/resources/avro/consentcode.avdl