What does MODS stand for?

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Metadata Object Description Schema

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The OAI Protocol for Metadata Harvesting also uses Metadata Object Description Schema (MODS) which unlike the old standard way of indexing metadata, utilizes a subset of MARC elements and sometimes regroups these elements.

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