diff -r 000000000000 -r df27f9610c82 src/iconolab_episteme/__init__.py
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/src/iconolab_episteme/__init__.py	Tue Jun 26 15:55:08 2018 +0200
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+VERSION = (0, 0, 30, "final", 0)
+
+VERSION_STR = ".".join(map(lambda i:"%02d" % (i,), VERSION[:2]))
+
+###
+# https://github.com/django/django/blob/1.9.1/django/utils/version.py
+#
+def get_version(version=None):
+    "Returns a PEP 440-compliant version number from VERSION."
+    if not version:
+        version = VERSION
+    version = get_complete_version(version)
+
+    # Now build the two parts of the version number:
+    # main = X.Y[.Z]
+    # sub = .devN - for pre-alpha releases
+    #     | {a|b|rc}N - for alpha, beta, and rc releases
+
+    main = get_main_version(version)
+
+    sub = ''
+    if version[3] == 'alpha' and version[4] == 0:
+        sub = '.dev'
+
+    elif version[3] != 'final':
+        mapping = {'alpha': 'a', 'beta': 'b', 'rc': 'rc'}
+        sub = mapping[version[3]] + str(version[4])
+
+    return str(main + sub)
+
+def get_complete_version(version):
+    """
+    then checks for correctness of the tuple provided.
+    """
+    assert len(version) == 5
+    assert version[3] in ('alpha', 'beta', 'rc', 'final')
+
+    return version
+
+def get_main_version(version=None):
+    "Returns main version (X.Y[.Z]) from VERSION."
+    version = get_complete_version(version)
+    parts = 2 if version[2] == 0 else 3
+    return '.'.join(str(x) for x in version[:parts])
+
+__version__ = get_version(VERSION)
+
+default_app_config = 'iconolab_episteme.apps.IconolabEpistemeApp'