diff --git a/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml b/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7e82191b0f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/schema-publish.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,61 @@
+name: schema-publish
+
+# author: @ralfhandl
+# issue: https://github.com/OAI/OpenAPI-Specification/issues/3715
+
+#
+# This workflow updates the respec 'pretty' rendered versions of the spec 
+# on the gh-pages branch when the corresponding markdown files change.
+#
+
+# 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/scripts/schema-convert.js b/scripts/schema-convert.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec8c6919ea
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/schema-convert.js
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env node
+
+'use strict';
+
+const fs = require('fs');
+const yaml = require('yaml');
+
+function convert(filename,date) {
+    try {
+        const s = fs.readFileSync(filename,'utf8');
+        const obj = yaml.parse(s, {prettyErrors: true});
+        // replace last segment of id, $id, and $ref value with date
+        for (const p of ["id","$id","$ref"]) {
+            if (obj[p]) {
+                obj[p] = obj[p].replace(/\/[^\/]+$/,'/'+date);
+            }
+        }
+        console.log(JSON.stringify(obj,null,2));
+    }
+    catch (ex) {
+        console.warn('  ',ex.message);
+        process.exitCode = 1;
+    }
+}
+
+if (process.argv.length<4) {
+    console.warn('Usage: convert-schema.js file.yaml YYYY-MM-DD');
+}
+else {
+  convert(process.argv[2], process.argv[3]);
+}
+
diff --git a/scripts/schema-publish.sh b/scripts/schema-publish.sh
new file mode 100755
index 0000000000..3990927cc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/schema-publish.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+
+# Author: @ralfhandl
+
+# run this script from the root of the repo. It is designed to be run by a GitHub workflow.
+
+for filename in schemas/v3*/schema.yaml ; do
+  vVersion=$(basename $(dirname "$filename"))
+  version=${vVersion:1}
+  lastCommitDate=$(git log -1 --format="%ad" --date=short "$filename")
+
+  echo "$filename $lastCommitDate"
+  mkdir -p deploy/oas/$version/schema
+  node scripts/schema-convert.js "$filename" $lastCommitDate > deploy/oas/$version/schema/$lastCommitDate
+  mv deploy/oas/$version/schema/*.md deploy/oas/$version/schema/$lastCommitDate.md
+
+  filenameBase=$(dirname "$filename")/schema-base.yaml
+  if [ -f "$filenameBase" ]; then
+    echo "$filenameBase $lastCommitDate"
+    mkdir -p deploy/oas/$version/schema-base
+    node scripts/schema-convert.js "$filenameBase" $lastCommitDate > deploy/oas/$version/schema-base/$lastCommitDate
+    mv deploy/oas/$version/schema-base/*.md deploy/oas/$version/schema-base/$lastCommitDate.md
+  fi
+done
diff --git a/tests/md2html/md2html.test.js b/tests/md2html/md2html.test.js
index 3309611d55..590ec94ce3 100644
--- a/tests/md2html/md2html.test.js
+++ b/tests/md2html/md2html.test.js
@@ -2,10 +2,9 @@ import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
 import { exec } from "node:child_process";
 import { resolve } from "node:path";
 import { describe, test, expect } from "vitest";
-import assert from "node:assert";
 
 const folder = "./tests/md2html/fixtures/";
-describe("v3.0 - Validate examples", async () => {
+describe("Markdown to HTML", async () => {
   readdirSync(folder, { withFileTypes: true })
     .filter((entry) => entry.isFile() && /\.md$/.test(entry.name))
     .forEach((entry) => {
diff --git a/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.json b/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..0d42e54685
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "id": "https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.0/schema/8765-43-21",
+  "$id": "https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.0/schema/8765-43-21",
+  "$ref": "path/to/somewhere/8765-43-21",
+  "other": {
+    "foo": "bar"
+  }
+}
diff --git a/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.yaml b/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.yaml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..79efd300d9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schema-convert/fixtures/schema.yaml
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+id: https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.0/schema/2024-10-17
+$id: https://spec.openapis.org/oas/3.0/schema/some-iteration
+$ref: path/to/somewhere/replace-last-segment
+other:
+  foo: bar
diff --git a/tests/schema-convert/schema-convert.test.js b/tests/schema-convert/schema-convert.test.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8fd47ace83
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/schema-convert/schema-convert.test.js
@@ -0,0 +1,58 @@
+import { readdirSync, readFileSync } from "node:fs";
+import { exec } from "node:child_process";
+import { resolve } from "node:path";
+import { describe, test, expect } from "vitest";
+import assert from "node:assert";
+
+const folder = "./tests/schema-convert/fixtures/";
+describe("Convert Schemas", async () => {
+  test("YAML with id, $id, $ref", async () => {
+    const expected = readFileSync(folder + "schema.json", "utf8");
+    const output = await convert(
+      [
+        "schema.yaml",
+        "8765-43-21",
+      ],
+      folder,
+    );
+    expect(output.stdout).to.equal(expected);
+  });
+
+  test("non-existing input", async () => {
+    const output = await convert(
+      [
+        "does-not-exist",
+        "YYYYMMDD",
+      ],
+      folder,
+    );
+    expect(output.stderr).to.equal("   ENOENT: no such file or directory, open 'does-not-exist'\n");
+  });
+
+  test("invalid parameters", async () => {
+    const output = await convert(
+      [
+        "schema.yaml",
+      ],
+      folder,
+    );
+    expect(output.stderr).to.equal("Usage: convert-schema.js file.yaml YYYY-MM-DD\n");
+  });
+});
+
+function convert(args, cwd) {
+  return new Promise((res) => {
+    exec(
+      `node ${resolve("./scripts/schema-convert.js")} ${args.join(" ")}`,
+      { cwd },
+      (error, stdout, stderr) => {
+        res({
+          code: error?.code || 0,
+          error,
+          stdout,
+          stderr,
+        });
+      },
+    );
+  });
+}