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:	should run under Java 1.6 on Windows
Input Formats:	Template:Format, Template:Format, Template:Format/AProperty "Input format" (as page type) with input value "Template:Format]]/A" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process., Template:Format and SIPProperty "Input format" (as page type) with input value "Template:Format]] and SIP" contains invalid characters or is incomplete and therefore can cause unexpected results during a query or annotation process.

Description

The KOST-Val application is used to validate Template:Format, Template:Format, Template:Format/A, Template:Format files and Submission Information Package (SIP).

KOST-Val supersedes the format validation tools SIARD-VAL, TIFF-Val and SIP-Val by KOST-CECO.

SIARD format

SIARD stands for Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases. Originally the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) have developed the SIARD format as a sustainable solution for the archiving of relations databases.

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

eCH is the Swiss organization for standardization in the field of e-government. 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 uses JHOVE (Harvard Object Validation Environment) and evaluates its output further.

For the PDF/A validation module PDFTron PDF-A Manager or 3-Heights(TM) PDF Validator are used.

For the JP2 validation module Jpylyzer is used.

Read Me

The KOST-Val application is used to validate TIFF, SIARD, PDF/A, JP2 files and Submission Information Package (SIP).

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 https://github.com/KOST-CECO/KOST-Val/releases. For installation instructions please check the manual (DE/FR/EN).

Future

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

Feedback & Issues

Feedback about KOST-Val is very welcome at http://github.com/KOST-CECO/KOST-Val/issues or kost-val[at]kost-ceco.ch

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User Experiences

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Development Activity

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

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 activity feeds:

2024-07-16 06:13:50: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/83ba678dea01746074e9695868104794a1d66208 Add files via upload]; by Chlara https://github.com/Chlara
2024-02-29 06:38:22: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/a1c6d75a2bd0c99f1bda6a7cdf20c6639f0d274c Merge pull request #90 from KOST-CECO/v1.1.0]; by KostCeco https://github.com/KostCeco
2024-02-29 06:15:29: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0f6873a4d691ea6ec7fb929d44b8fa6877d4f7c3 KOST-Tools v1.1.0.0 Teil 17]; by Chlara https://github.com/Chlara
2024-02-26 08:55:19: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/981deaa62c8e7af97e8055ea07e65117301f54e7 KOST-Tools v1.1.0.0 Teil 16]; by Chlara https://github.com/Chlara
2024-02-26 08:21:13: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/c3180d66ea69dc47cea85437cf6a3b62f2718078 KOST-Tools v1.1.0.0 Teil 15]; by Chlara https://github.com/Chlara

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