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)

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.

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:

2025-12-09 10:30:50

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/51008d974d0b6a7b7ef2d8875b8088d86c1d589d Merge pull request #624 from digital-preservation/manual-version-bump]

by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi

2025-12-09 10:20:43

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/3b4842eaf41a3ebc43fb5bbba3e8029cb45a20e5 Manual version number update as 1.4.1 is already released]

by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi

2025-12-09 10:17:04

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/f608dd7d19a37bb04a7b7be22777762a5306178a Merge pull request #623 from marmoure/bugfix/expose-ValidatorBuilder]

by sparkhi https://github.com/sparkhi

2025-12-08 14:28:40

[tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/fff50f4ee0007b1fc915f19d99b10f11de094130 [bugfix] expose `ValidatorBuilder` class outside the package.]

by marmoure https://github.com/marmoure

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

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