diff --git a/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..4ac83ae88b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+name: schema-publish
+
+# author: @ralfhandl
+# issue: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/3715
+
+#
+# This workflow copies the 3.x schemas to the gh-pages branch
+#
+
+# run this on push to main
+on:
+  push:
+    branches:
+      - main
+  workflow_dispatch: {}
+
+jobs:
+  publish:
+
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+
+    steps:
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4 # checkout main branch
+      with:
+        fetch-depth: 0
+
+    - uses: actions/setup-node@v4 # setup Node.js
+      with:
+        node-version: '20.x'
+
+    - name: Install dependencies
+      run: npm ci
+
+    - uses: actions/checkout@v4 # checkout gh-pages branch
+      with:
+        ref: gh-pages
+        path: deploy
+
+    - name: run main script
+      run: scripts/schema-publish.sh
+
+    - name: Create Pull Request
+      uses: peter-evans/create-pull-request@v6
+      with:
+        token: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+        branch: publish-schema-iteration
+        base: gh-pages
+        delete-branch: true
+        path: deploy
+        labels: Housekeeping,Schema
+        team-reviewers: OAI/tsc #TODO: check if this works, or if it needs a special access token
+        title: Publish OpenAPI Metaschema Iterations
+        commit-message: New OpenAPI metaschema iterations
+        signoff: true
+        body: |
+          This pull request is automatically triggered by GitHub action `schema-publish`.
+          The `schemas/**/*.yaml` files have changed and JSON files are automatically generated.
diff --git a/schemas/v3.1/dialect/base.schema.yaml b/schemas/v3.1/dialect.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from schemas/v3.1/dialect/base.schema.yaml
rename to schemas/v3.1/dialect.yaml
diff --git a/schemas/v3.1/meta/base.schema.yaml b/schemas/v3.1/meta.yaml
similarity index 100%
rename from schemas/v3.1/meta/base.schema.yaml
rename to schemas/v3.1/meta.yaml
diff --git a/scripts/schema-publish.sh b/scripts/schema-publish.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..d1a7f822bd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/schema-publish.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# Author: @ralfhandl
+
+# Run this script from the root of the repo. It is designed to be run by a GitHub workflow.
+
+for schemaDir in schemas/v3* ; do
+  vVersion=$(basename "$schemaDir")
+  version=${vVersion:1}
+  echo $version
+
+  # list of schemas to process, dependent schemas come first
+  schemas=(meta.yaml dialect.yaml schema.yaml schema-base.yaml)
+
+  # find the newest commit date for each schema
+  maxDate=""
+  declare -A datesHash
+  for schema in "${schemas[@]}"; do
+    if [ -f  "$schemaDir/$schema" ]; then
+      newestCommitDate=$(git log -1 --format="%ad" --date=short "$schemaDir/$schema")
+
+      # the newest date across a schema and all its dependencies is its date stamp
+      if [ "$newestCommitDate" \> "$maxDate" ]; then
+        maxDate=$newestCommitDate
+      fi
+      datesHash["$schema"]=$maxDate
+      echo $schema changed at $newestCommitDate
+    fi
+  done
+
+  # construct sed command
+  sedCmd=()
+  for schema in "${!datesHash[@]}"; do
+    base=$(basename "$schema" .yaml)
+    sedCmd+=("-e s/$base\/WORK-IN-PROGRESS/$base\/${datesHash[$schema]}/g")
+  done
+
+  # create the date-stamped schemas
+  for schema in "${!datesHash[@]}"; do
+    base=$(basename "$schema" .yaml)
+    target=deploy/oas/$version/$base/${datesHash[$schema]}
+
+    mkdir -p "deploy/oas/$version/$base"
+
+    sed ${sedCmd[@]} $schemaDir/$schema > $target.yaml
+    node scripts/yaml2json/yaml2json.js $target.yaml
+    rm $target.yaml
+    mv $target.json $target
+
+    mv deploy/oas/$version/$base/*.md $target.md
+  done
+
+  echo ""
+done
diff --git a/scripts/yaml2json/yaml2json.js b/scripts/yaml2json/yaml2json.js
index f69145ad36..decb075cc7 100755
--- a/scripts/yaml2json/yaml2json.js
+++ b/scripts/yaml2json/yaml2json.js
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ const fs = require('fs');
 const yaml = require('yaml');
 
 function convert(filename) {
-    console.log(filename);
+    // console.log(filename);
     const s = fs.readFileSync(filename,'utf8');
     let obj;
     try {