diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 311cbc7..0ea703f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@ build/
 *.sublime-project
 *.sublime-workspace
 *.make
+*.yaml
 Makefile
 event_log.txt
 .DS_Store
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 18a8e2a..9ff459d 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
 [submodule "vendor/spdlog"]
 	path = vendor/spdlog
 	url = https://github.com/gabime/spdlog.git
+[submodule "vendor/yaml-cpp"]
+	path = vendor/yaml-cpp
+	url = https://github.com/jbeder/yaml-cpp.git
diff --git a/src/evb/CMakeLists.txt b/src/evb/CMakeLists.txt
index 86b2cf8..610d6f2 100644
--- a/src/evb/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/evb/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1,6 +1,10 @@
 add_library(EventBuilderCore STATIC)
-target_include_directories(EventBuilderCore SYSTEM PUBLIC ../../vendor/spdlog/include ${ROOT_INCLUDE_DIRS} 
-    PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../
+target_include_directories(EventBuilderCore
+    SYSTEM PUBLIC ../../vendor/spdlog/include
+                  ${ROOT_INCLUDE_DIRS} 
+    PUBLIC ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
+           ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/../
+           ../../vendor/yaml-cpp/include
 )
 
 target_precompile_headers(EventBuilderCore PRIVATE ../EventBuilder.h)
@@ -34,6 +38,9 @@ target_sources(EventBuilderCore PRIVATE
 target_link_libraries(EventBuilderCore PUBLIC
     EVBDict
     ${ROOT_LIBRARIES}
+    yaml-cpp
 )
 
-set_target_properties(EventBuilderCore PROPERTIES ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${EVB_LIBRARY_DIR})
\ No newline at end of file
+set_target_properties(EventBuilderCore PROPERTIES ARCHIVE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY ${EVB_LIBRARY_DIR})
+
+target_compile_definitions(EventBuilderCore PRIVATE YAML_CPP_STATIC_DEFINE)
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/evb/EVBApp.cpp b/src/evb/EVBApp.cpp
index f5dd5f0..5951a7a 100644
--- a/src/evb/EVBApp.cpp
+++ b/src/evb/EVBApp.cpp
@@ -9,6 +9,7 @@
 #include "EVBApp.h"
 #include "CompassRun.h"
 #include "SlowSort.h"
+#include "yaml-cpp/yaml.h"
 
 namespace EventBuilder {
 	
@@ -47,6 +48,33 @@ namespace EventBuilder {
 	bool EVBApp::ReadConfigFile(const std::string& fullpath) 
 	{
 		EVB_INFO("Reading in EVB configuration from file {0}...", fullpath);
+
+		YAML::Node data;
+		try
+		{
+			data = YAML::LoadFile(fullpath);
+		}
+		catch(YAML::ParserException& e)
+		{
+			EVB_ERROR("Read of EVB config failed, unable to open input file!");
+			return false;
+		}
+		
+		m_params.workspaceDir = data["WorkspaceDir"].as<std::string>();
+		m_params.scalerFile = data["ScalerFile"].as<std::string>();
+		m_params.timeShiftFile = data["TimeShiftFile"].as<std::string>();
+		m_params.slowCoincidenceWindow = data["SlowCoincidenceWindow(ps)"].as<double>();
+		m_params.runMin = data["MinRun"].as<int>();
+		m_params.runMax = data["MaxRun"].as<int>();
+		m_params.bufferSize = data["BufferSize(hits)"].as<size_t>();
+
+		m_workspace.reset(new EVBWorkspace(m_params.workspaceDir));
+		if(!m_workspace->IsValid())
+		{
+			EVB_ERROR("Unable to process input configuration due to bad workspace.");
+			return false;
+		}
+		/*
 		std::ifstream input(fullpath);
 		if(!input.is_open()) 
 		{
@@ -80,7 +108,7 @@ namespace EventBuilder {
 		input>>junk>>m_params.bufferSize;
 	
 		input.close();
-	
+		*/
 		EVB_INFO("Successfully loaded EVB config.");
 	
 		return true;
@@ -96,7 +124,20 @@ namespace EventBuilder {
 			EVB_WARN("Failed to write to config to file {0}, unable to open file!", fullpath);
 			return;
 		}
-	
+
+		YAML::Emitter yamlStream;
+		yamlStream << YAML::BeginMap;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "WorkspaceDir" << YAML::Value << m_params.workspaceDir;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "ScalerFile" << YAML::Value <<  m_params.scalerFile;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "TimeShiftFile" << YAML::Value << m_params.timeShiftFile;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "SlowCoincidenceWindow(ps)" << YAML::Value << m_params.slowCoincidenceWindow;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "MinRun" << YAML::Value << m_params.runMin;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "MaxRun" << YAML::Value << m_params.runMax;
+		yamlStream << YAML::Key << "BufferSize(hits)" << YAML::Value << m_params.bufferSize;
+		yamlStream << YAML::EndMap;
+
+		output << yamlStream.c_str();
+		/*	
 		output<<"-------Data Location----------"<<std::endl;
 		output<<"WorkspaceDirectory: "<<m_params.workspaceDir<<std::endl;
 		output<<"-------------------------------"<<std::endl;
@@ -112,7 +153,7 @@ namespace EventBuilder {
 		output<<"MaxRun: "<<m_params.runMax<<std::endl;
 		output<<"BufferSize: "<<m_params.bufferSize<<std::endl;
 		output<<"-------------------------------"<<std::endl;
-	
+		*/
 		output.close();
 	
 		EVB_INFO("Successfully wrote config to file.");
diff --git a/vendor/yaml-cpp b/vendor/yaml-cpp
new file mode 160000
index 0000000..c73ee34
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vendor/yaml-cpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit c73ee34704c512ebe915b283645aefa9f424a22f