diff --git a/.github/workflows/deploy.yml b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f751354
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/deploy.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+name: Publish package to the Maven Central Repository
+on:
+  release:
+    types: [created]
+jobs:
+  publish:
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v3
+
+      - name: Set up Java 11
+        uses: actions/setup-java@v3
+        with:
+          java-version: '11'
+          distribution: 'adopt'
+          server-id: ossrh
+          server-username: MAVEN_USERNAME
+          server-password: MAVEN_PASSWORD
+
+      - name: Install Blosc native library
+        run: sudo apt-get install -y libblosc1
+
+      - id: install-secret-key
+        name: Install gpg secret key
+        run: |
+          # Install gpg secret key
+          cat <(echo -e "${{ secrets.OSSRH_GPG_SECRET_KEY }}") | gpg --batch --import
+          # Verify gpg secret key
+          gpg --list-secret-keys --keyid-format LONG
+
+      - name: Publish package
+        run: mvn --batch-mode deploy
+        env:
+          MAVEN_USERNAME: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_USERNAME }}
+          MAVEN_PASSWORD: ${{ secrets.OSSRH_TOKEN }}
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index e3f4e4b..145fdc3 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -4,9 +4,42 @@
          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>dev.zarr.zarrjava</groupId>
+    <groupId>dev.zarr</groupId>
     <artifactId>zarr-java</artifactId>
-    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
+    <version>0.0.1</version>
+
+    <name>zarr-java</name>
+
+    <description>
+        zarr-java is a Java library providing an implementation of chunked,
+        compressed, N-dimensional arrays close to the zarr-python package.
+    </description>
+
+    <url>https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-java</url>
+
+    <licenses>
+        <license>
+            <name>MIT License</name>
+            <url>https://opensource.org/license/mit/</url>
+            <distribution>repo</distribution>
+        </license>
+    </licenses>
+
+    <scm>
+        <url>https://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-java</url>
+        <connection>scm:git:git://github.com/zarr-developers/zarr-java.git</connection>
+        <developerConnection>scm:git:git@github.com:zarr-developers/zarr-java.git</developerConnection>
+    </scm>
+
+    <developers>
+        <developer>
+            <id>normanrz</id>
+            <name>Norman Rzepka</name>
+            <roles>
+                <role>maintainer</role>
+            </roles>
+        </developer>
+    </developers>
 
     <properties>
         <maven.compiler.source>8</maven.compiler.source>
@@ -85,6 +118,17 @@
         </dependency>
     </dependencies>
 
+    <distributionManagement>
+        <snapshotRepository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <url>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/content/repositories/snapshots</url>
+        </snapshotRepository>
+        <repository>
+            <id>ossrh</id>
+            <url>https://s01.oss.sonatype.org/service/local/staging/deploy/maven2/</url>
+        </repository>
+    </distributionManagement>
+
     <repositories>
         <repository>
             <id>unidata-all</id>
@@ -103,6 +147,39 @@
                     <useSystemClassLoader>false</useSystemClassLoader>
                 </configuration>
             </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-javadoc-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>3.5.0</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                    <id>attach-javadoc</id>
+                    <goals>
+                        <goal>jar</goal>
+                    </goals>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+                <configuration>
+                    <source>8</source>
+                </configuration>
+            </plugin>
+            <plugin>
+                <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
+                <artifactId>maven-gpg-plugin</artifactId>
+                <version>1.6</version>
+                <executions>
+                    <execution>
+                    <id>sign-artifacts</id>
+                    <phase>verify</phase>
+                    <goals>
+                        <goal>sign</goal>
+                    </goals>
+                    <configuration>
+                        <keyname>9F88D86AD9A0D91E</keyname>
+                    </configuration>
+                    </execution>
+                </executions>
+            </plugin>
         </plugins>
     </build>
 </project>