diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c570a48..b2dc813 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ its content.
 A [BagIt serialization](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-11#section-4)
 is typically a tar- or zip-file which contains the base folder.
 BagIt archives include at the root a subdirectory for the base folder of the
-bag, e.g. the ZIP file would contain `example1/bagit.txt`.g
+bag, e.g. the ZIP file would contain `example1/bagit.txt`.
 
 The [payload](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-11#section-2.1.2)
 of a bag is the files within a directory that
@@ -242,7 +242,16 @@ The `bag-info.txt` format supports some
 [basic bag-level metadata](https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kunze-bagit-11#section-2.2.2), e.g.
 `Bagging-Date`, `Contact-Phone` and `Organization-Address`. While some of these
 might seem archaic, "other arbitrary metadata elements may also be present.",
-allowing extensions.
+allowing extensions. 
+
+Research Object BagIt archives SHOULD specify the bagit-ro [BagIt profile](https://github.com/ruebot/bagit-profiles):
+
+```
+    BagIt-Profile-Identifier: https://rawgit.com/ResearchObject/bagit-ro-ex1/master/profile.json
+```
+
+**FIXME:** Permanent URI for the bagit-ro profile
+
 
 The BagIt specification has no requirements for such alternative elements
 (e.g.  they are not [RFC 2822](https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2822) headers),
diff --git a/example1/bag-info.txt b/example1/bag-info.txt
index a0ac2f0..bdea8f5 100644
--- a/example1/bag-info.txt
+++ b/example1/bag-info.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+BagIt-Profile-Identifier: https://rawgit.com/ResearchObject/bagit-ro-ex1/master/profile.json
 Source-Organization: Example inc.
 Organization-Address: 1 Example Way
   Example City
diff --git a/profile.json b/profile.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..6bc5137
--- /dev/null
+++ b/profile.json
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+{
+   "BagIt-Profile-Info":{
+      "BagIt-Profile-Identifier":"https://rawgit.com/ResearchObject/bagit-ro-ex1/master/profile.json",
+      "Source-Organization":"researchobject.org",
+      "Contact-Name":"Stian Soiland-Reyes",
+      "Contact-Email":"soiland-reyes@cs.manchester.ac.uk",
+      "External-Description":"BagIt profile for Research Objects. See https://github.com/ResearchObject/bagit-ro-ex1",
+      "Version":"0.1.20150728"
+   },
+   "Bag-Info": {
+      "Bag-Size": {
+         "required":true
+      },
+      "Payload-Oxum":{
+         "required":true
+      }
+   },
+   "Manifests-Required":[
+      "md5", "sha1"
+   ],
+   "Allow-Fetch.txt": true,
+   "Serialization": "required",
+   "Accept-Serialization":[
+      "application/zip"
+   ],
+   "Tag-Manifests-Required":[
+     "md5", "sha1"
+   ],
+   "Tag-Files-Required":[
+     ".ro/manifest.json"
+   ],
+   "Accept-BagIt-Version":[
+      "0.97"
+   ]
+}