KOST-Val

	KOST-Val is an open source Validator for different file formats.
Homepage:	http://kost-ceco.ch/cms/index.php?kost_val_de
License:	GPL V3
Platforms:	It should run on any operating system that has Java 1.6

Description

The KOST-Val application is used for validate TIFF, SIARD and PDF/A-Files.

KOST-Val replaces SIARD-VAL and TIFF-Val from the KOST-CECO organization.

SIARD format

SIARD stands for Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases. The Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) have developed the SIARD format as a sustainable solution for the archiving of relations databases. SIARD Format is based on internationally recognized standards such as XML, SQL:1999 and UNICODE.

Moreover, in early 2013 SIARD format has been adopted as eCH-Standard (eCH-0165: SIARD format specification http://www.ech.ch/vechweb/page?p=dossier&documentNumber=eCH-0165).

eCH-Standards define guidelines for recurring applications and their results, as for example format definitions or procedural standards. The aim of those standards is to unify and thus facilitate the electronic collaboration between authorities as well as between authorities and organizations, educational and research institutions, firms and private organizations.

third-party applications

The TIFF validation module use JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment) and evaluates them further.

For the PDF/A validation module PDFTron PDF-A Manager must be installed.

Read Me

The KOST-Val application is used for validate TIFF, SIARD and PDF/A-Files.

This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions; see GPL-3.0_COPYING.txt for details.

You can download KOST-Val under http://kost-ceco.ch/cms/index.php?kost_val_de. For installation-instructions check the manual (DE/FR)

Future

See http://github.com/KOST-CECO/KOST-Val/issues

Feedback & Issues

Feedback about KOST-Val is very welcome -> http://github.com/KOST-CECO/KOST-Val/issues

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User Experiences

Development Activity

All development activity are visible on Github: http://github.com/KOST-CECO/KOST-Val/commits