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)
Function:	Metadata Processing,Validation
Content type:	Spreadsheet,Document,Research Data
Appears in COW:	Creating a SIP from content downloaded from OneDrive (or other Cloud based source), Digital archiving workflow (high-level)

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

Tool demo with videos in the DPC Handbook

Development Activity

All development activity is visible on Github: https://github.com/digital-preservation/csv-validator/commits

Release Feed

Below the last 3 release feeds:

2025-10-02 12:12:57: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.4.1 1.4.1]; by MancunianSam
2025-03-06 16:18:55: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.4.0 CSV Validator 1.4.0]; by techncl
2024-03-01 14:22:31: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.3.0 CSV Validator 1.3.0]; by sparkhi

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 activity feeds:

2025-12-04 11:58:26: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/00938f5faa43be8169670b7a2e27bc621a602876 Merge pull request #619 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-12-04 11:52:17: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/e82cbd53d8b69f8705e26ff576dc102893e07b19 Merge pull request #610 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/io…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-12-04 11:52:11: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a6b372d3d16f1c57879e83505a3eaad40ee36852 Merge pull request #611 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/sp…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-12-04 11:52:06: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/64f3b8ed8b5ccd0a75ba19ef0289e61b6bbbee04 Merge pull request #612 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/co…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-12-04 11:52:01: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/5e57104d44a63c4952e90a708821b23d60bec786 Merge pull request #613 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam