# Early Learning Resource Network
## Open Metadata Exchange (OME) plugin

An OME plugin defines how to import and publish metadata from an Open Education Resources system.

`plugin.py` provides the class that enables OME to understand Early Learning Resource Network metadata.

This plugin defines one or more:

* `mimetypes` so that Early Learning json data can be stored as enclosures in InterNetNews (INN) articles.
* `newsgroups` so Early Learning metadata can be published to and subscribed from those INN newsgroups.

The plugin is composed of at least three code files.

* `plugin.py`: Defines `mimetypes`, `newsgroups`, and a `make_metadata_card()` function that translates Early Learning data into an OME EducationalResource.
* `early_learning_models.py`: Generated by Pydantic tools to make it fast and reliable to import Early Learning metadata.
* `bulk_import.py`: Utilities to convert data directly from the Early Learning API into OME EducationalResources.

> [!NOTE]
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> Please ***do NOT edit*** this line and below because when the docs are rebuilt, these lines will be overwritten by scripts/sync_plugin_docs.py.

**MIMETYPES:**
1. application/vnd.earlylearning.early-learning+json

**NEWSGROUPS:**

{'ome.early_learning': 'Metadata from Early Learning Resource Network https://www.earlylearningresourcenetwork.org'}
```text
server/plugins/early_learning
├── __init__.py
├── bulk_import.py
├── early_learning_article.eml
├── early_learning_item.json
├── early_learning_models.py
├── early_learning_ome_item.json
├── early_learning_resources.json
├── plugin.py
└── README.md

1 directory, 9 files
```