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

Activity Feed

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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
2026-02-10 15:27:28: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/74858c5f14510e06bf3498bf44c676564d5add61 Merge pull request #635 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-02-10 15:27:25: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5b50b6255adef82822437637e44a8f10959a3d82 Merge pull request #636 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-02-09 00:21:32: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/ac269d9d1c2ba5e075cf970d07803ae1ae6e4132 Bump io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin from 0.48.0 to 0.48.1]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
2026-02-09 00:20:22: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f3c402cb93873790023f8ddea42dbafa9d33c012 Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-dependency-plugin]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot