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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 [http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-schema/csv-schema-1.0.html CSV Schema Language version 1.0], released simultaneously. Further information in [http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/csv-validator-new-digital-preservation-tool/ post on The National Archives blog] | 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 [http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-schema/csv-schema-1.0.html CSV Schema Language version 1.0], released simultaneously. Further information in [http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/csv-validator-new-digital-preservation-tool/ post on The National Archives blog] | ||
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Revision as of 09:00, 23 October 2014
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
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
Activity Feed
Below the last 5 activity feeds:
- 2026-03-09 10:30:27
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/14e319c74829ebe4c702d975e4078f6182c53724 Merge pull request #642 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/ne…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2026-03-09 10:21:55
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/759b6bce70b1a0cb34b272971f29ea82efda229f Merge pull request #640 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/jo…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2026-03-09 10:21:51
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/7dd33bc65ce497673bd57d1be5510177bbc3349e Merge pull request #641 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2026-03-09 00:19:09
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/ba34f806ce5aa845a2693b37d215605abc11c121 Bump net.alchim31.maven:scala-maven-plugin from 4.9.9 to 4.9.10]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2026-03-09 00:18:52
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/61d10907c648159b1d02364653421f070f6ce426 Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-resources-plugin from 3.4.0 to 3.5.0]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
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