GoC Open Data

GoC Open Data

Chrome Plugin for GoC Open Data

Stats
This extension was removed from Chrome Web Store on 2023-03-03
Users: 7
Version: 2.0 (Last updated: 2014-03-07)
Creation date: 2014-03-07
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood: High risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • unlimitedStorage
  • tabs
  • http://data.gc.ca/
  • http://shrouded-dawn-1777.herokuapp.com/
Size: 219.14K
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Summary

The extension for Open Data of Government of Canada is to bring open data to your fingertips. It helps you to search, use, and manage GoC Open Data.

It has the following major features:

  1. An option page allows you to input keywords for searching datasets. Returned datasets are displayed in the format of links to the owner org's website if the url is provided in the dataset, or else links to the data.gc.ca site are displayed.

  2. Search term and results are saved in HTML5 local storage so that they persist during browser restarts. Counter of unvisited links are displayed on the extension icon shown to the right of the Chrome toolbar.

  3. A Javascript listener monitors links clicked by you and update the plugin counter in the background.

  4. Functionality to allow you to share interested datasets on your social media websites including Twitter and Facebook. For twitter, URL and title of the dataset are pre-populated in the Twitter share screen, which makes sharing very handy.

  5. Multilingual support. All extension pages support both two official languages - English or French depending on the current browser locale.

  6. HTML5 messaging API is used to dynamic update and synchronize contents across different pages without introducing the confusion of page refreshes.

  7. If Geocoding information (spatial element in the CKAN datasets) is provided, a custom Google Map is provided to show the distance between your current location and the event location in the interested datasets. For example, if you search "Severe Thunderstorms", datasets of Natural Resource Canada will be returned.

Safety
Risk impact

GoC Open Data may not be safe to use and it requires some risky permissions. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing.

Risk likelihood

GoC Open Data may not be trust-worthy. Avoid installing if possible unless you really trust this publisher.

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