diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-registry.yml b/.github/workflows/check-registry.yml
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..6c80aabfed18
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-registry.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+name: Registry Validation
+
+on:
+  pull_request:
+    # Make sure this only runs when registry entries are touched.
+    paths:
+      - 'data/registry/**'
+
+jobs:
+  registry-validation:
+    name: REGISTRY validation
+    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
+    steps:
+      - uses: actions/checkout@v4
+      - name: Create and use reduced-dependencies package.json
+        run: |
+          mkdir -p tmp
+          jq '.devDependencies |= with_entries(
+                  select(.key | test("gulp|markdown|through|require|yargs|js-yaml|ajv|ajv-formats|ajv-errors"))
+                )
+                | del(.dependencies, .optionalDependencies)' \
+            package.json > tmp/package-ci.json
+          cp tmp/package-ci.json package.json
+      - uses: actions/setup-node@v4
+        with:
+          node-version-file: .nvmrc
+          cache: npm
+          cache-dependency-path: tmp/package-ci.json
+      - run: npm install --ignore-scripts --omit=optional
+      - run: npm run check:registry
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-text.yml b/.github/workflows/check-text.yml
index 6f0ada090584..df81709b7cf0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-text.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-text.yml
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           mkdir -p tmp
           jq '.devDependencies |= with_entries(
-                  select(.key | test("gulp|markdown|through|require|yargs"))
+                  select(.key | test("gulp|markdown|through|require|yargs|js-yaml|ajv|ajv-formats|ajv-errors"))
                 )
                 | del(.dependencies, .optionalDependencies)' \
             package.json > tmp/package-ci.json
diff --git a/data/registry-schema.json b/data/registry-schema.json
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..0defdcb304db
--- /dev/null
+++ b/data/registry-schema.json
@@ -0,0 +1,188 @@
+{
+  "$schema": "http://json-schema.org/draft-07/schema#",
+  "$id": "https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/schema.json",
+  "$comment": "https://opentelemetry.io/ecosystem/registry/adding/",
+  "description": "A schema for entries in the OpenTelemetry registry",
+  "type": "object",
+  "properties": {
+    "title": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The title of the entry",
+      "errorMessage": "The title of the entry must be a string and can not be empty",
+      "minLength": 1
+    },
+    "registryType": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The type of the entry",
+      "enum": [
+        "core",
+        "exporter",
+        "extension",
+        "instrumentation",
+        "log-bridge",
+        "processor",
+        "receiver",
+        "resource-detector",
+        "utilities"
+      ]
+    },
+    "language": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The programming language of the entry",
+      "examples": ["collector"]
+    },
+    "description": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "A description of the entry",
+      "errorMessage": "The description of the entry must be a string and can not be empty"
+    },
+    "tags": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "type": "string"
+      },
+      "description": "A list of tags for the entry",
+      "uniqueItems": true
+    },
+    "license": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The license of the entry",
+      "examples": ["Apache 2.0", "MIT"]
+    },
+    "createdAt": {
+      "type": "string",
+      "description": "The date the entry was created",
+      "format": "date"
+    },
+    "authors": {
+      "type": "array",
+      "items": {
+        "type": "object",
+        "properties": {
+          "name": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "oneOf": [
+              {
+                "pattern": "OpenTelemetry Authors",
+                "errorMessage": "The name of the author can not contain 'OpenTelemetry' except for 'OpenTelemetry Authors'"
+              },
+              {
+                "pattern": "^(?!.*OpenTelemetry).*$"
+              }
+            ],
+            "description": "The name of the author",
+            "errorMessage": "The name of the author must be a string"
+          },
+          "email": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The email address of the author",
+            "format": "email"
+          },
+          "url": {
+            "type": "string",
+            "description": "The URL of the author",
+            "pattern": "^https:\\/\\/github\\.com\\/([a-zA-Z0-9](?:-?[a-zA-Z0-9]){0,38})$",
+            "errorMessage": "The URL of the author must be a valid GitHub user URL"
+          }
+        },
+        "if": {
+          "properties": {
+            "name": {
+              "const": "OpenTelemetry Authors"
+            }
+          }
+        },
+        "then": {
+          "required": ["name"]
+        },
+        "else": {
+          "required": ["name"],
+          "anyOf": [
+            {
+              "required": ["email"]
+            },
+            {
+              "required": ["url"]
+            }
+          ],
+          "errorMessage": "An author must have an email or a URL"
+        },
+        "additionalProperties": false
+      },
+      "description": "A list of authors of the entry",
+      "minItems": 1
+    },
+    "urls": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "properties": {
+        "repo": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The URL of the repository"
+        },
+        "docs": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The URL of the documentation"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": ["repo"],
+      "additionalProperties": false
+    },
+    "package": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "properties": {
+        "name": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The name of the package"
+        },
+        "version": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The version of the package"
+        },
+        "registry": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The registry of the package",
+          "enum": [
+            "crates",
+            "npm",
+            "pip",
+            "gems",
+            "maven",
+            "nuget",
+            "packagist",
+            "go",
+            "go-collector",
+            "hex"
+          ]
+        },
+        "quickInstall": {
+          "type": "boolean",
+          "description": "A flag to indicate if a quick install can be shown"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": ["name", "registry"],
+      "additionalProperties": false
+    },
+    "deprecated": {
+      "type": "object",
+      "properties": {
+        "reason": {
+          "type": "string",
+          "description": "The reason for deprecation",
+          "errorMessage": "The reason for deprecation must be a string and can not be empty"
+        }
+      },
+      "required": ["reason"],
+      "additionalProperties": false
+    },
+    "isNative": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "A flag to indicate if the entry is native"
+    },
+    "isFirstParty": {
+      "type": "boolean",
+      "description": "A flag to indicate if the entry is first party"
+    }
+  },
+  "additionalProperties": false,
+  "required": ["title", "description", "urls", "authors"]
+}
diff --git a/data/registry/collector-extension-googleclientauth.yml b/data/registry/collector-extension-googleclientauth.yml
index dbf6c5cd7df7..b3f11b149076 100644
--- a/data/registry/collector-extension-googleclientauth.yml
+++ b/data/registry/collector-extension-googleclientauth.yml
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ urls:
   repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-collector-contrib/tree/main/extension/googleclientauthextension
 license: Apache 2.0
 description:
+  This extension provides Google OAuth2 Client Credentials and Metadata for gRPC
+  and HTTP based exporters.
 authors:
   - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
 createdAt: 2024-04-18
diff --git a/data/registry/collector-receiver-splunkenterprise.yml b/data/registry/collector-receiver-splunkenterprise.yml
index 9bbda4f74ab9..dee59b9dae73 100644
--- a/data/registry/collector-receiver-splunkenterprise.yml
+++ b/data/registry/collector-receiver-splunkenterprise.yml
@@ -8,6 +8,9 @@ tags:
   - collector
 license: Apache 2.0
 description:
+  The Splunk Enterprise Receiver is a pull based tool which enables the
+  ingestion of performance metrics describing the operational status of a user's
+  Splunk Enterprise deployment to an appropriate observability tool.
 authors:
   - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
 urls:
diff --git a/data/registry/exporter-dotnet-prometheus-aspnetcore.yml b/data/registry/exporter-dotnet-prometheus-aspnetcore.yml
index 2b1f98c96890..ff19ad374680 100644
--- a/data/registry/exporter-dotnet-prometheus-aspnetcore.yml
+++ b/data/registry/exporter-dotnet-prometheus-aspnetcore.yml
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ tags:
   - dotnet
   - core
   - exporter
-  - dotnet
 license: Apache 2.0
 description:
   An OpenTelemetry Prometheus exporter for configuring an ASP.NET Core
diff --git a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-dataloader.yml b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-dataloader.yml
index beaa9f3b65bc..0110e127beac 100644
--- a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-dataloader.yml
+++ b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-dataloader.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - instrumentation
   - js
 license: Apache 2.0
+authors:
+  - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
 description:
   This module provides an instrumentation library for the injection of trace
   context to dataloader
diff --git a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-nextjs.yml b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-nextjs.yml
index e4c96168c71a..5023692f76fe 100644
--- a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-nextjs.yml
+++ b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-nextjs.yml
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ license: MIT
 description: Next.js supports OpenTelemetry instrumentation out of the box.
 authors:
   - name: Vercel, Inc.
-    url: https://github.com/vercel/
+    url: https://github.com/vercel
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/packages/next/src/server/lib/trace
   docs: https://nextjs.org/docs/app/building-your-application/optimizing/open-telemetry
diff --git a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-redis-4.yml b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-redis-4.yml
index 649cad42a6b7..858bfb18358d 100644
--- a/data/registry/instrumentation-js-redis-4.yml
+++ b/data/registry/instrumentation-js-redis-4.yml
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ tags:
   - instrumentation
   - js
 license: Apache 2.0
+authors:
+  - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
 description:
   This module provides automatic instrumentation for the `redis@^4.0.0` package.
 urls:
diff --git a/data/registry/otel-lua.yml b/data/registry/otel-lua.yml
index 7b34db0de486..3172bfc786d9 100644
--- a/data/registry/otel-lua.yml
+++ b/data/registry/otel-lua.yml
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ license: Apache 2.0
 description: An unofficial implementation of OpenTelemetry in lua.
 authors:
   - name: yangxikun
+    url: https://github.com/yangxikun
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/yangxikun/opentelemetry-lua
 createdAt: 2022-12-17
diff --git a/data/registry/otel-ocaml.yml b/data/registry/otel-ocaml.yml
index dec67fb84a83..f0c897aade18 100644
--- a/data/registry/otel-ocaml.yml
+++ b/data/registry/otel-ocaml.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ description:
   several exporters to talk to signal collectors
 authors:
   - name: Imandra
-    url: https://imandra.ai
+    url: https://github.com/imandra-ai
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/imandra-ai/ocaml-opentelemetry/
 createdAt: 2022-10-26
diff --git a/data/registry/tools-ansible-grafana.yml b/data/registry/tools-ansible-grafana.yml
index f6ecf53516f4..d7da4ff225d8 100644
--- a/data/registry/tools-ansible-grafana.yml
+++ b/data/registry/tools-ansible-grafana.yml
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ description:
   multiple machines
 authors:
   - name: Ishan Jain
-    url: https://www.github.com/ishanjainn
+    url: https://github.com/ishanjainn
   - name: Grafana Labs
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/grafana/grafana-ansible-collection/tree/main/roles/opentelemetry_collector
diff --git a/data/registry/tools-cpp-conan.yml b/data/registry/tools-cpp-conan.yml
index 779f481d720f..a7d81e2dc953 100644
--- a/data/registry/tools-cpp-conan.yml
+++ b/data/registry/tools-cpp-conan.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
 license: MIT
 description: Conan package for `opentelemetry-cpp`.
 authors:
-  - name:
+  - name: The conan authors
 urls:
   repo: https://conan.io/center/recipes/opentelemetry-cpp
 createdAt: 2023-02-13
diff --git a/data/registry/tools-cpp-vcpkg.yml b/data/registry/tools-cpp-vcpkg.yml
index 3aee04cf2125..187d5e97490e 100644
--- a/data/registry/tools-cpp-vcpkg.yml
+++ b/data/registry/tools-cpp-vcpkg.yml
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ tags:
 license: MIT
 description: A vcpkg package for opentelemetry-cpp.
 authors:
-  - name:
+  - name: The vcpkg Authors
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/microsoft/vcpkg/tree/master/ports/opentelemetry-cpp
 createdAt: 2023-02-13
diff --git a/data/registry/tools-python-resourcedetector-gcp.yml b/data/registry/tools-python-resourcedetector-gcp.yml
index c8cf3c52ab1e..615b94f6c27d 100644
--- a/data/registry/tools-python-resourcedetector-gcp.yml
+++ b/data/registry/tools-python-resourcedetector-gcp.yml
@@ -10,9 +10,9 @@ tags:
 license: Apache 2.0
 description: >
   This library provides support for detecting GCP resources like GCE, GKE, etc.
-
 authors:
   - name: Google
+    url: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/opentelemetry-operations-python/tree/main/opentelemetry-resourcedetector-gcp
 createdAt: 2020-08-13
diff --git a/data/registry/tools-rust-aws.yml b/data/registry/tools-rust-aws.yml
index 85896238a5c7..ca65a518a824 100644
--- a/data/registry/tools-rust-aws.yml
+++ b/data/registry/tools-rust-aws.yml
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@ tags:
 license: Apache 2.0
 authors:
   - name: OpenTelemetry Authors
-
 urls:
   repo: https://github.com/open-telemetry/opentelemetry-rust-contrib/tree/main/opentelemetry-aws
 createdAt: 2021-02-08
diff --git a/gulp-src/validate-registry.js b/gulp-src/validate-registry.js
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f2ff5553dbdf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gulp-src/validate-registry.js
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+const gulp = require('gulp');
+const { taskArgs } = require('./_util');
+const through2 = require('through2');
+const yaml = require('js-yaml');
+const Ajv = require('ajv');
+const addFormats = require('ajv-formats');
+const addErrors = require('ajv-errors');
+
+const defaultGlobs = ['data/registry/*.yml'];
+
+let numFilesProcessed = 0,
+  numFilesWithIssues = 0;
+
+const schema = require('../data/registry-schema.json');
+const ajv = new Ajv({
+  allErrors: true,
+});
+addFormats(ajv);
+addErrors(ajv);
+const validate = ajv.compile(schema);
+
+function logFiles(debug) {
+  return through2.obj(function (file, enc, cb) {
+    if (debug) {
+      console.log('Processing file:', file.path);
+    }
+    cb(null, file);
+  });
+}
+
+function createSourceMap(yamlText, yamlData) {
+  const lines = yamlText.split('\n');
+  const sourceMap = {};
+
+  function traverse(node, path = '', startLine = 0) {
+    if (Array.isArray(node)) {
+      node.forEach((item, index) => {
+        const newPath = `${path}/${index}`;
+        const line = findArrayElementLine(lines, path, index, startLine);
+        if (line !== -1) {
+          sourceMap['/' + newPath] = line + 1; // line numbers are 1-based
+          traverse(item, newPath, line);
+        }
+      });
+    } else if (typeof node === 'object' && node !== null) {
+      for (const key in node) {
+        const newPath = path ? `${path}/${key}` : key;
+        const line = findKeyLine(lines, key, startLine);
+        if (line !== -1) {
+          sourceMap['/' + newPath] = line + 1; // line numbers are 1-based
+          traverse(node[key], newPath, line + 1);
+        }
+      }
+    } else if (node === null) {
+      sourceMap['/' + path] = startLine;
+    }
+  }
+
+  function findKeyLine(lines, key, startLine) {
+    const regex = new RegExp(`^\\s*-?\\s*${key}:`);
+    for (let i = startLine; i < lines.length; i++) {
+      if (regex.test(lines[i])) {
+        return i;
+      }
+    }
+    return -1;
+  }
+
+  function findArrayElementLine(lines, path, index, startLine) {
+    // const parentPath = path ? path.split('.').join('\\.') : '';
+    const regex = new RegExp(`^\\s*-`);
+    let currentIndex = -1;
+    for (let i = startLine; i < lines.length; i++) {
+      const trimmedLine = lines[i].trim();
+      if (regex.test(trimmedLine)) {
+        currentIndex++;
+        if (currentIndex === index) {
+          return i;
+        }
+      }
+    }
+    return -1;
+  }
+  traverse(yamlData);
+  return sourceMap;
+}
+
+function getLineNumber(sourceMap, yamlPath) {
+  return sourceMap[yamlPath] || null;
+}
+
+function validateRegistryEntry(file, enc, cb) {
+  const registryEntry = yaml.load(file.contents.toString(), {
+    schema: yaml.JSON_SCHEMA,
+  });
+
+  const sourceMap = createSourceMap(file.contents.toString(), registryEntry);
+
+  const valid = validate(registryEntry);
+  if (!valid) {
+    // some validation issues let to warning/notices not errors, so we need to check for those
+    let hasErrors = false;
+    for (const error of validate.errors) {
+      const lineNumber = getLineNumber(sourceMap, error.instancePath);
+
+      if (!lineNumber) {
+        console.log(registryEntry);
+        console.log(yaml.load(file.contents.toString()));
+        console.log(sourceMap);
+        console.log(error.instancePath);
+      }
+
+      let logLevel = 'error';
+
+      if (error.message === 'An author must have an email or a URL') {
+        logLevel = 'warning';
+      } else if (error.message === 'must match "else" schema') {
+        logLevel = 'notice';
+      } else {
+        // Real error, this counts!
+        hasErrors = true;
+      }
+
+      if (process.env.GITHUB_ACTIONS) {
+        console.log(
+          `::${logLevel} file=${file.path},line=${lineNumber},endLine=${lineNumber},title=Registry Schema Validation::${error.message}`,
+        );
+      } else {
+        console.log(error);
+        console.error(
+          `${logLevel} in ${file.path}:${lineNumber}: ${error.message}`,
+        );
+      }
+    }
+    if (hasErrors) {
+      numFilesWithIssues++;
+    }
+  }
+  numFilesProcessed++;
+  cb(null, file);
+}
+
+function validateRegistry() {
+  const argv = taskArgs().options({
+    glob: {
+      alias: 'g',
+      type: 'array',
+      description:
+        'Globs of files to run through json schema validation. List flag more than once for multiple values.',
+      default: defaultGlobs,
+    },
+    debug: {
+      type: 'boolean',
+      description: 'Output debugging information.',
+      default: false,
+    },
+  }).argv;
+
+  if (argv.info) {
+    // Info about options was already displayed by yargs.help().
+    return Promise.resolve();
+  }
+
+  const globs = argv.glob;
+  if (argv.debug) {
+    console.log('Globs being used:', globs);
+  }
+
+  return gulp
+    .src(globs, { followSymlinks: false })
+    .pipe(logFiles(argv.debug))
+    .pipe(through2.obj(validateRegistryEntry))
+    .on('end', () => {
+      const fileOrFiles = 'file' + (numFilesProcessed == 1 ? '' : 's');
+      const msg = `Processed ${numFilesProcessed} ${fileOrFiles}, ${numFilesWithIssues} had issues.`;
+      if (numFilesWithIssues > 0) {
+        throw new Error(msg);
+      } else {
+        console.log(msg);
+      }
+    });
+}
+
+gulp.task('validate-registry', validateRegistry);
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 30fe93774f64..61987ab8ccc8 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
     "_check:links:internal": "npm run __check:links",
     "_check:links": "HTMLTEST_ARGS='--log-level 1' npm run __check:links",
     "_check:markdown": "npx gulp lint-md",
+    "_check:registry": "npx gulp validate-registry",
     "_check:text": "npx textlint content data `ls *.md`",
     "_diff:check": "git diff --name-only --exit-code",
     "_diff:fail": "git diff --name-only --exit-code || exit 1",
@@ -45,6 +46,7 @@
     "check:links:internal": "npm run _check:links:internal",
     "check:links": "npm run _check:links",
     "check:markdown": "scripts/check-markdown-wrapper.sh",
+    "check:registry": "npm run _check:registry",
     "check:spelling": "npx cspell --no-progress -c .cspell.yml content/en data 'layouts/**/*.md'",
     "check:text": "npm run _check:text -- ",
     "check": "npm run seq -- $(npm run -s _list:check:*)",
@@ -103,9 +105,14 @@
     "update:submodule": "set -x && git submodule update --remote ${DEPTH:- --depth 1}"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
+    "ajv": "^8.16.0",
+    "ajv-errors": "^3.0.0",
+    "ajv-formats": "^3.0.1",
     "autoprefixer": "^10.4.19",
     "cspell": "^8.12.1",
     "gulp": "^5.0.0",
+    "hugo-extended": "0.128.0",
+    "js-yaml": "^4.1.0",
     "hugo-extended": "0.129.0",
     "markdown-link-check": "^3.12.2",
     "markdownlint": "^0.34.0",
diff --git a/static/refcache.json b/static/refcache.json
index 18dda0d765c1..ada945d393e9 100644
--- a/static/refcache.json
+++ b/static/refcache.json
@@ -2299,6 +2299,10 @@
     "StatusCode": 200,
     "LastSeen": "2024-01-18T19:37:06.447831-05:00"
   },
+  "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform": {
+    "StatusCode": 200,
+    "LastSeen": "2024-07-08T15:23:37.97537+02:00"
+  },
   "https://github.com/GoogleCloudPlatform/guest-agent": {
     "StatusCode": 200,
     "LastSeen": "2024-01-18T08:06:57.71306-05:00"
@@ -2863,6 +2867,10 @@
     "StatusCode": 200,
     "LastSeen": "2024-05-08T10:07:06.998803+02:00"
   },
+  "https://github.com/imandra-ai": {
+    "StatusCode": 200,
+    "LastSeen": "2024-07-05T23:26:58.569631+02:00"
+  },
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