diff --git a/.JuliaFormatter.toml b/.JuliaFormatter.toml
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9613e05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.JuliaFormatter.toml
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+style = "yas"
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index a8283c2..c183e50 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -1,17 +1,22 @@
 name = "TimeSpans"
 uuid = "bb34ddd2-327f-4c4a-bfb0-c98fc494ece1"
 authors = ["Beacon Biosignals, Inc."]
-version = "0.3.1"
+version = "0.3.2"
 
 [deps]
+ArrowTypes = "31f734f8-188a-4ce0-8406-c8a06bd891cd"
 Dates = "ade2ca70-3891-5945-98fb-dc099432e06a"
 Statistics = "10745b16-79ce-11e8-11f9-7d13ad32a3b2"
 
 [compat]
 julia = "1.6"
+Arrow = "1.6"
+ArrowTypes = "1.1.0"
 
 [extras]
+Arrow = "69666777-d1a9-59fb-9406-91d4454c9d45"
+Tables = "bd369af6-aec1-5ad0-b16a-f7cc5008161c"
 Test = "8dfed614-e22c-5e08-85e1-65c5234f0b40"
 
 [targets]
-test = ["Test"]
+test = ["Arrow", "Test", "Tables"]
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ad0cb80..442cf15 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -5,4 +5,4 @@
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-stable-blue.svg)](https://beacon-biosignals.github.io/TimeSpans.jl/stable)
 [![](https://img.shields.io/badge/docs-dev-blue.svg)](https://beacon-biosignals.github.io/TimeSpans.jl/dev)
 
-TimeSpans.jl provides a simple `TimeSpan` type for representing a continuous span between two points in time, along with generic utility functions for common operations on `TimeSpan`-like types. Importantly, the package exposes a minimal interface (`TimeSpans.start` and `TimeSpans.stop`) that any type can implement to enable support for the TimeSpans API.
+TimeSpans.jl provides a simple `TimeSpan` type for representing a continuous span between two points in time, along with generic utility functions for common operations on `TimeSpan`-like types. Importantly, the package exposes a minimal interface (`TimeSpans.start` and `TimeSpans.stop`) that any type can implement to enable support for the TimeSpans API. In addition to `TimeSpan`, this package implements the TimeSpans API for `Period`s and `NamedTuple`s that have `:start` and `:stop` keys.
diff --git a/src/TimeSpans.jl b/src/TimeSpans.jl
index a304f45..4895e12 100644
--- a/src/TimeSpans.jl
+++ b/src/TimeSpans.jl
@@ -3,12 +3,12 @@ module TimeSpans
 using Base.Iterators
 using Dates
 using Statistics
+using ArrowTypes
 
 export TimeSpan, start, stop, istimespan, translate, overlaps,
        shortest_timespan_containing, duration, index_from_time,
        time_from_index, merge_spans!, merge_spans, invert_spans
 
-
 const NS_IN_SEC = Dates.value(Nanosecond(Second(1)))  # Number of nanoseconds in one second
 
 #####
@@ -102,6 +102,11 @@ istimespan(::Any) = false
 istimespan(::TimeSpan) = true
 istimespan(::Period) = true
 
+function istimespan(::T) where {T<:NamedTuple}
+    return hasfield(T, :start) && fieldtype(T, :start) <: Period &&
+           hasfield(T, :stop) && fieldtype(T, :stop) <: Period
+end
+
 """
     start(span)
 
@@ -110,6 +115,11 @@ Return the inclusive lower bound of `span` as a `Nanosecond` value.
 start(span::TimeSpan) = span.start
 start(t::Period) = convert(Nanosecond, t)
 
+function start(x::NamedTuple)
+    istimespan(x) || throw(ArgumentError("input is not a valid timespan"))
+    return Nanosecond(x.start)
+end
+
 """
     stop(span)
 
@@ -118,6 +128,11 @@ Return the exclusive upper bound of `span` as a `Nanosecond` value.
 stop(span::TimeSpan) = span.stop
 stop(t::Period) = convert(Nanosecond, t) + Nanosecond(1)
 
+function stop(x::NamedTuple) 
+    istimespan(x) || throw(ArgumentError("input is not a valid timespan"))
+    return Nanosecond(x.stop)
+end
+
 #####
 ##### generic utilities
 #####
@@ -388,4 +403,11 @@ function invert_spans(spans, parent_span)
     return gaps
 end
 
+# Support arrow serialization of timespans
+
+const TIME_SPAN_ARROW_NAME = Symbol("JuliaLang.TimeSpan")
+
+ArrowTypes.arrowname(::Type{TimeSpan}) = TIME_SPAN_ARROW_NAME
+ArrowTypes.JuliaType(::Val{TIME_SPAN_ARROW_NAME}) = TimeSpan
+
 end # module
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 199835a..4c354c7 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-using Test, TimeSpans, Dates
+using Test, TimeSpans, Dates, Arrow, Tables
 
 using TimeSpans: contains, nanoseconds_per_sample
 using Statistics
@@ -221,3 +221,45 @@ end
     @test length(i_spans) == 6
     @test all(duration.(i_spans) .== Second(8))
 end
+
+ntspan(a, b) = (; start=Nanosecond(a), other=1.0, stop=Nanosecond(b))
+@testset "support named tuples" begin
+    @test index_from_time(100, (;start=Second(3), stop=Second(6))) == 301:600
+    @test_throws ArgumentError stop((;stop = 0))
+    @test_throws ArgumentError start((;start = 0))
+    @test !istimespan((;stop=0, start=1))
+    @test !istimespan((;stop=Nanosecond(0)))
+
+    for t in [(; start=Nanosecond(1), stop=Nanosecond(2)),
+              (; stop=Second(1), start=Second(0))]
+        @test istimespan(t)
+        @test start(t) == Nanosecond(t.start)
+        @test stop(t) == Nanosecond(t.stop)
+        @test contains(t, t)
+        @test overlaps(t, t)
+        @test shortest_timespan_containing([t]) == TimeSpan(t)
+        @test duration(t) == Nanosecond(t.stop - t.start)
+        by = Second(rand(1:10))
+        @test translate(t, by) === TimeSpan(start(t) + Nanosecond(by),
+                                            stop(t) + Nanosecond(by))
+    end
+
+    spans = [ntspan(0, 10), ntspan(6, 12), ntspan(15, 20),
+             ntspan(21, 30), ntspan(29, 31)]
+    # NOTE: this could be fixed by defining
+    # Base.convert(::Type{<:NamedTuple}, x::TimeSpan) = (; start=start(x), stop=stop(x))
+    @test_broken merge_spans!(overlaps, spans) == [ntspan(0, 12), ntspan(15, 20), ntspan(21, 31)]
+
+    spans = [ntspan(Second(x), Second(x + 1)) for x in 0:10:59]
+    parent_span = ntspan(Second(0), Second(60))
+    i_spans = invert_spans(spans, parent_span)
+    @test length(i_spans) == 6
+end
+
+@testset "Arrow serialization" begin
+    cols = (; span=TimeSpan(1, 2))
+    io = Arrow.tobuffer([cols])
+    spancol = first(Tables.columns(Arrow.Table(io)))
+    @test spancol isa AbstractVector{<:TimeSpan}
+    @test spancol == [cols.span]
+end