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

Below the last 3 release feeds:

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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2026-01-27 14:23:59: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/2d6aac859b902acc91e8874ba0869e2a4dd8707c Merge pull request #634 from digital-preservation/DR2-2627_updateComm…]; by techncl https://github.com/techncl
2026-01-27 12:16:42: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a2c96aa29890941e4369b370fc092926a1daf81f Add version to commit hashes]; by techncl https://github.com/techncl
2026-01-13 10:10:51: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/df58e18f3f08ba55a9851e41d6d6b7aba2dc3b72 Merge pull request #630 from digital-preservation/update-result-inter…]; by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi
2026-01-12 15:17:31: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c1bc0835e941b1dcae18177e0ca274de9cb3c8b2 nested calls simplified by extracting request the first time]; by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi
2026-01-12 11:27:52: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/959123a6c0da6994d7a90374f8992098804e2a8c Java API interface updated to give results from implementation classes.]; by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi