diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index 999a7d0..ece543f 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 [build-system]
-requires = ["setuptools>=61.0"]
+requires = ["setuptools>=61.0", "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.2"]
 build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
 
+[tool.setuptools_scm]
+
 [project]
 name = "xpystac"
 authors = [
diff --git a/xpystac/__init__.py b/xpystac/__init__.py
index b3f4756..184a80c 100644
--- a/xpystac/__init__.py
+++ b/xpystac/__init__.py
@@ -1 +1,7 @@
-__version__ = "0.1.2"
+from importlib.metadata import PackageNotFoundError, version
+
+try:
+    __version__ = version("xpystac")
+except PackageNotFoundError:  # noqa
+    # package is not installed
+    pass