CSV Validator

	Validation of CSV files against user-defined schema
Homepage:	http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-validator/
License:	Mozilla Public Licence version 2.0
Platforms:	Cross platform (Scala 2.10/Java Virtual Machine)
Function:	Metadata Processing,Validation
Content type:	Spreadsheet,Document,Research Data
Appears in COW:	Creating a SIP from content downloaded from OneDrive (or other Cloud based source), Digital archiving workflow (high-level)

Description

The CSV Validator is designed to allow validation of CSV files against user defined schema. It was developed at The National Archives (UK) to allow the validation of metadata files being received in CSV format. This was driven by the fact that CSV data is very easy to create for all users, via spreadsheet tools, or at worst any text editor. However, there was previously no straightforward way of checking that the received CSV files actually had the expected number of columns, or that those columns contained data of the type expected. Version 1.0 of the tool was released in July 2014, additional developer involvement is encouraged. The CSV Validator serves as reference implementation for the CSV Schema Language version 1.0, released simultaneously. Further information in post on The National Archives blog.

[CSV Schema Language version 1.1 was released on 25 January 2016, alongside CSV Validator 1.1.

Download

You can download CSV Validator under https://github.com/digital-preservation/csv-validator/releases.

User Experiences

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on Github: https://github.com/digital-preservation/csv-validator/commits

Release Feed

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2026-01-06 17:30:14: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.4.3 1.4.3]; by sparkhi
2026-01-06 12:57:09: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.4.3-RC1 1.4.3-RC1]; by sparkhi
2025-12-16 14:39:50: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.4.2 1.4.2]; by sparkhi

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2026-02-23 09:45:06: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c34cc83441ff60e4c6a9bb9cb5244794d3e14fe8 Merge pull request #639 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-02-23 09:39:44: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e3932e57a11da806bb0a7291053836163a1d309a Merge pull request #638 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-02-23 00:22:23: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0e305bd4f00a590aa07e4f7baa39debd07f7e0bb Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.4 to 3.5.5]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
2026-02-23 00:21:51: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/896f0329e0712cdcaa12063793b2d7e86e16c0b3 Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-report-plugin]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
2026-02-10 15:33:44: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7e36cc26b744e28ac9c156d1739a2118684f9c9a Merge pull request #637 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/io…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam