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.

[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

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:

2025-03-06 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
2023-12-01 17:05:14: [tag:github.com,2008:Repository/9081590/1.3.0-RC3 1.3.0-RC3]; by sparkhi

Activity Feed

Below the last 5 activity feeds:

2025-03-31 09:34:35: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/b75ffaa9762223d2afe9c809d0249cb2c945c2a8 Merge pull request #578 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/jo…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-03-31 09:28:55: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/0d9dadafe93c53344157f110124f540fffe64e94 Merge pull request #573 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/ne…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-03-31 09:28:51: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/667da7fd95fbac74da300120fa66532b606b7ef7 Merge pull request #574 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/co…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-03-31 09:28:47: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/da76a309ee6ce1074f5991d8d3f073265cfe2044 Merge pull request #575 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/or…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam
2025-03-31 09:28:43: [tag:github.com,2008:Grit::Commit/9f69ea27df08e67edda2227b97fd3651e7e8a6fa Merge pull request #576 from digital-preservation/dependabot/maven/co…]; by MancunianSam https://github.com/MancunianSam