diff --git a/cmd/obp/cmd/validate.go b/cmd/obp/cmd/validate.go
index e2cf52f..7fe7ac8 100644
--- a/cmd/obp/cmd/validate.go
+++ b/cmd/obp/cmd/validate.go
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ var validateCmd = &cobra.Command{
 			log.Fatalf("error adding resource to jsonschema compiler: %s\n", err)
 		}
 
-		schema, err := compiler.Compile("schema.json")
+		schema, err := compiler.Compile(schemaFilename)
 		if err != nil {
 			log.Fatalf("error compiling schema: %s\n", err)
 		}
diff --git a/go.mod b/go.mod
index d4cb606..1668bb9 100644
--- a/go.mod
+++ b/go.mod
@@ -4,9 +4,11 @@ go 1.19
 
 require (
 	github.com/charmbracelet/lipgloss v0.7.1
+	github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5 v5.3.0
 	github.com/spf13/cobra v1.7.0
 	github.com/spf13/viper v1.15.0
 	go.uber.org/zap v1.24.0
+	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1
 )
 
 require (
@@ -33,5 +35,4 @@ require (
 	golang.org/x/sys v0.6.0 // indirect
 	golang.org/x/text v0.5.0 // indirect
 	gopkg.in/ini.v1 v1.67.0 // indirect
-	gopkg.in/yaml.v3 v3.0.1 // indirect
 )
diff --git a/go.sum b/go.sum
index c259d34..b6a6ec7 100644
--- a/go.sum
+++ b/go.sum
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ github.com/rivo/uniseg v0.2.0/go.mod h1:J6wj4VEh+S6ZtnVlnTBMWIodfgj8LQOQFoIToxlJ
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.3.0/go.mod h1:M8bDsm7K2OlrFYOpmOWEs/qY81heoFRclV5y23lUDJ4=
 github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal v1.6.1 h1:/FiVV8dS/e+YqF2JvO3yXRFbBLTIuSDkuC7aBOAvL+k=
 github.com/russross/blackfriday/v2 v2.1.0/go.mod h1:+Rmxgy9KzJVeS9/2gXHxylqXiyQDYRxCVz55jmeOWTM=
+github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5 v5.3.0 h1:uIkTLo0AGRc8l7h5l9r+GcYi9qfVPt6lD4/bhmzfiKo=
+github.com/santhosh-tekuri/jsonschema/v5 v5.3.0/go.mod h1:FKdcjfQW6rpZSnxxUvEA5H/cDPdvJ/SZJQLWWXWGrZ0=
 github.com/spf13/afero v1.9.3 h1:41FoI0fD7OR7mGcKE/aOiLkGreyf8ifIOQmJANWogMk=
 github.com/spf13/afero v1.9.3/go.mod h1:iUV7ddyEEZPO5gA3zD4fJt6iStLlL+Lg4m2cihcDf8Y=
 github.com/spf13/cast v1.5.0 h1:rj3WzYc11XZaIZMPKmwP96zkFEnnAmV8s6XbB2aY32w=
diff --git a/schemas/base.json b/schemas/base.json
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..87d7905
--- /dev/null
+++ b/schemas/base.json
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
+  "$id": "http://ndumas.com/schemas/myschema.json",
+  "title":"baseNote",
+  "description":"properties all notes must have",
+  "type":"object",
+  "properties": {
+    "title": {
+      "type": "string"
+    },
+    "aliases": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "type":"string",
+        "uniqueItems": true,
+        "minItems": 1
+      }
+    }
+  }
+}