diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 55d812e..15c4573 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 doc/_build/*
 *.pyc
 .*.swp
+build/*
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..aac14f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+import sys, os
+from distutils.core import setup
+from distutils.command.install import INSTALL_SCHEMES
+
+# the following installation setup is based on django's setup.py
+def fullsplit(path, result=None):
+    """
+    Split a pathname into components (the opposite of os.path.join) in a
+    platform-neutral way.
+    """
+    if result is None:
+        result = []
+    head, tail = os.path.split(path)
+    if head == '':
+        return [tail] + result
+    if head == path:
+        return result
+    return fullsplit(head, [tail] + result)
+
+# Tell distutils to put the data_files in platform-specific installation
+# locations. See here for an explanation:
+# http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/browse_thread/thread/35ec7b2fed36eaec/2105ee4d9e8042cb
+for scheme in INSTALL_SCHEMES.values():
+    scheme['data'] = scheme['purelib']
+
+# Compile the list of packages available, because distutils doesn't have
+# an easy way to do this.
+packages, data_files = [], []
+root_dir = os.path.dirname(__file__)
+if root_dir != '':
+    os.chdir(root_dir)
+sloth_dir = 'sloth'
+
+for dirpath, dirnames, filenames in os.walk(sloth_dir):
+    # Ignore dirnames that start with '.'
+    for i, dirname in enumerate(dirnames):
+        if dirname.startswith('.'): del dirnames[i]
+    if '__init__.py' in filenames:
+        packages.append('.'.join(fullsplit(dirpath)))
+    elif filenames:
+        data_files.append([dirpath, [os.path.join(dirpath, f) for f in filenames]])
+
+setup(name='sloth',
+      version='0.1',
+      description='The Sloth Labeling Tool',
+      author='CV:HCI Research Group',
+      url='http://cvhci.anthropomatik.kit.edu',
+      packages=packages,
+      data_files=data_files,
+      scripts=['sloth/bin/labeltool.py']
+)
diff --git a/sloth/bin/labeltool.py b/sloth/bin/labeltool.py
index 0600c4d..1eb5596 100755
--- a/sloth/bin/labeltool.py
+++ b/sloth/bin/labeltool.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ from optparse import OptionParser
 from conf import config
 
 APP_NAME            = """labeltool"""
-ORGANIZATION_NAME   = """CVHCI Research Group"""
+ORGANIZATION_NAME   = """CV:HCI Research Group"""
 ORGANIZATION_DOMAIN = """cvhci.anthropomatik.kit.edu"""
 __version__         = """0.1"""