ESO Phase 3 automatic data validation: groovy-based tool to assure the compliance of the reduced data with the Science Data Product Standard

The ESO Phase 3 infrastructure provides a channel to submit reduced data products for publication to the astronomical community and long-term data preservation in the ESO Science Archive Facility. To be integrated into Phase 3, data must comply to the ESO Science Data Product Standard regarding format (one unique standard data format is associated to each type of product, like image, spectrum, IFU cube, etc.) and required metadata. ESO has developed a Groovy based tool that carries out an automatic validation of the submitted reduced products that is triggered when data are uploaded and then submitted. Here we present how the tool is structured and which checks are implemented.