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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:
- 2025-04-15 08:46:13
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/bc7d4b4fd7423b3f2708bc8de24ee7244c966ff5 Merge pull request #579 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/ca…]
- by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
- 2025-04-14 09:02:06
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/fdf98b43004b9f6b21741e9ba1419668fa10f857 Merge pull request #580 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/io…]
- by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi
- 2025-04-14 09:01:01
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/fc233d87bc71044f04988496f0785f634c7f3eb3 Merge pull request #581 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/co…]
- by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi
- 2025-04-14 00:37:51
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/96ecefcb2ccdfb7f21bfce9e415b578b8088ec4a Bump commons-io:commons-io from 2.18.0 to 2.19.0]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
- 2025-04-07 00:35:48
- [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/1aa690f0cbe7718e59e6be02ae804e31193b8276 Bump io.fabric8:docker-maven-plugin from 0.45.1 to 0.46.0]
- by dependabot https://github.com/dependabot
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