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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2026-07-01 15:26:14: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3d95cb9a40239149dacc350976ebb3cd04d036e1 Merge pull request #652 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-07-01 15:16:15: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c59973d95dbadc51fc92e4b3a0a2a4f3b2763b3c Merge pull request #651 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-07-01 00:16:53: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f1c789f0123cdcba0645f87d722a4b1db6ce0f99 Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-plugin from 3.5.5 to 3.5.6]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
2026-07-01 00:15:25: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/56ba9b94b46b89e770e2a305ad20b1c568646b1d Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-surefire-report-plugin]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
2026-06-04 12:29:29: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/6639e3683523cc506ab64d4d1fc4546ebb184158 Merge pull request #650 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/jo…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam