ODS OAI-PMH

This Moodle block plugin serves as Data Provider for OAI-PMH 2.0 Harvester. Plugin enables Moodle administrator to define global settings for Data Provider as well as default metadata sharing for courses.
Course administrators can define if their course is shared, what are the licensing terms and Moodle plugins which data should be shared. ODS OAI-PMH supports all Moodle 2.x default modules, but also tries to support all other unknown modules. For unknown modules description for each item/module is decided using advanced heuristic algorithm.
In order to maintain the reliability of the Moodle server all data is cached, and server administrator can also define what harvesters are allowed to access the data. It is also possible to define length of caching for all data.
This is transient OAI-PMH provider, which means that all deleted data, is retained in the cache log.
All data items are provided with unique URL for direct access to the item. Access to the item is regulated by Moodle permission settings. This module does not allow access to the content, but only shares metadata information about all items that are allowed by the course administrator or Moodle administrator to be harvested.
Potential privacy issues
This plugin, if manually configured, shares metadata about the course content. Course content is not shared, but title and description of each item in course content can be shared. Both Moodle administrator and course administrator can define what metadata for which courses is shared.