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The '''Object Description Schema''' (MODS) is an [[Extensible Markup Language|XML]]-based bibliographic description schema developed by the [[United States]] [[Library of Congress]]' Network Development and Standards Office. MODS was designed as a compromise between the complexity of the [[MARC standards|MARC]] format used by libraries and the extreme simplicity of [[Dublin Core]] metadata.

==History and development==

MODS was first announced for trial use in June, 2002. As of August 2010 it is at version 3.4.