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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2026-01-05 15:01:33: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/398a1ac82af9114a2febae5caee4cbe0886e5bd7 Merge pull request #626 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/ne…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-01-05 14:55:19: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e1c4ca1f06df618681ce239738ae19af4e93f12b Merge pull request #621 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-01-05 14:55:13: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/344003ec1afe05ce502429cc290c0533c478ecac Merge pull request #622 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/io…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2026-01-05 14:55:07: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/58c7fd94063ab59086599c6dfc51ed2f1132bd88 Merge pull request #625 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-12-15 00:01:27: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/602601d78c3969584114269bf0a633fd23d6bcee Bump net.alchim31.maven:scala-maven-plugin from 4.9.7 to 4.9.8]; by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot