diff --git a/DESCRIPTION b/DESCRIPTION
index fa47dc2..66ddb73 100644
--- a/DESCRIPTION
+++ b/DESCRIPTION
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Authors@R: person(
            comment = c(ORCID = "0000-0003-2641-0916"))
 License: Artistic-2.0
 Encoding: UTF-8
-Version: 0.99.0
+Version: 0.99.2
 Depends: R (>= 4.3.0)
 Imports: AnnotationHub, GenomicRanges, utils
 Suggests: knitr, rmarkdown, testthat (>= 3.0.0), BiocStyle
diff --git a/inst/scripts/make-metadata.R b/inst/scripts/make-metadata.R
index e55200a..540aa4f 100644
--- a/inst/scripts/make-metadata.R
+++ b/inst/scripts/make-metadata.R
@@ -126,4 +126,10 @@ write.csv(
   quote = TRUE  # This ensures strings containing spaces/commas are properly enclosed
 )
 
-message("metadata.csv has been successfully generated in inst/extdata/")
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+# Validate using AnnotationHubData
+if (!requireNamespace("AnnotationHubData", quietly = TRUE)) {
+    message("Please install AnnotationHubData to validate your metadata.csv")
+} else {
+    AnnotationHubData::makeAnnotationHubMetadata("inst/extdata")
+    message("Metadata validation completed successfully!")
+}
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