Difference between revisions of "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)
Appears in COW:	Creating a SIP from content downloaded from OneDrive (or other Cloud based source), Digital archiving workflow (high-level)

Revision as of 09:56, 25 January 2016

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

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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-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].
+[[http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-schema/csv-schema-1.1.html CSV Schema Language version 1.1] was released on 25 January 2016, alongside [http://digital-preservation.github.io/csv-validator/ CSV Validator 1.1].
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