diff --git a/datafast/__init__.py b/datafast/__init__.py
index e69de29..4bf583b 100644
--- a/datafast/__init__.py
+++ b/datafast/__init__.py
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+"""Datafast - A Python package for synthetic text dataset generation"""
+
+# This version should match the one in pyproject.toml
+__version__ = "0.0.5"
+
+def get_version():
+    """Return the current version of the datafast package."""
+    return __version__