diff --git a/.github/workflows/validate.yml b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
index 29bcdc237..9daf85bca 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/validate.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/validate.yml
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@ jobs:
           curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-schema/schema-v2/ror_schema.json -o ror_schema.json
           curl https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ror-community/ror-schema/schema-v2/ror_schema_v2_0.json -o ror_schema_v2_0.json
           ls ../files/
-          if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.schema-version == 'v1' }} ]]; then
+          if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.schema-version }} == 'v1' ]]; then
             echo "validating v1"
             if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.skip-geonames }} == true ]]; then
               if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.with-relationship }} == true ]]; then
@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ jobs:
               fi
             fi
           fi
-          if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.schema-version == 'v2' }} ]]; then
+          if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.schema-version }} == 'v2' ]]; then
             echo "validating v2"
             if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.skip-geonames }} == true ]]; then
               if [[ ${{ github.event.inputs.with-relationship }} == true ]]; then