Version 2.0 was a result of much discussion between participants from diverse institutions. Version 3.0 was recently issued, and also was a result of collaboration between LC and implementors and other interested experts.Thus it is a product of broad consensus among interested parties. LC expects that changes made will be on the basis of need in the user community. The MODS discussion list currently contains members from over 20 countries. LC is considering establishing an editorial board in the future.The Library of Congress will provide the function of maintenance agency for this standard by providing documentation, continuing to receive feedback about the standard's use, and modifying the schema where appropriate. LC will also provide tools to enable the conversion to and from MODS to other metadata formats