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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:
- 2026-08-03 15:23:19
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c85f02cf3e63d73882cd4f0079f46cc75bc587d9 Merge pull request #654 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2026-08-03 14:45:02
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/64dd5ae7bceb79bfb72c2203a486d1c86f8ace61 Merge pull request #653 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/co…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2026-08-01 00:13:10
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/4110192d0c4869dc5b2e87a3f7f930d6b2a2bac7 Bump org.apache.maven.plugins:maven-jar-plugin from 3.5.0 to 3.5.1]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2026-08-01 00:12:24
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/62c23620ec47b519d454ff6a366260fbcfe335b6 Bump com.mycila:license-maven-plugin from 5.0.0 to 5.1.1]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 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
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