Within the context of the Kohesio pilot of DG REGIO, a Wikibase instance has been set up by DG CNECT to bring together project related documentation in regards to the usage and monitoring of regional funding across EU Member States. The project is not public and merely in a pilot phase. DIGIT identified in the context of this collaboration the need for a validator to streamline the import of data, defined as CSV files, from Member States into a Wikibase instance, which could be potentially used in the future by the Kohesio project but also in other application domains.
The validator is publicly available and can be used as follows:
- Via web user interface, for validation driven by users.
- Via SOAP web service API, for machine-to-machine validations.
- Via Docker image, for on-premise or local usage.
- Via command-line tool, for on-premise or local usage.
For more information about the validator's use, please refer to the User guide of this very website.
Validation makes use of the Frictionless Table Schema specification to define CSV field constraints, complemented with additional syntax settings. The validator’s configuration is publicly available on GitHub. The validator itself is an instance of the Interoperability Test Bed’s generic CSV validation service.
For more information on the Kohesio's validator specification, please refer to the Specification section of this website.