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Description
SPASE (Space Physics Archive Search and Extract) is the de facto metadata standard internationally used in Heliophysics primarily for observatories, instruments, and the data they produce. The development of SPASE 3.0, the next generation of the SPASE data model, is driven by the need to increase support for FAIR principles and to solve difficulties with creating and managing SPASE metadata. The SPASE 3.0 model is designed as a Data Catalog Vocabulary (DCAT) - Version 3 application profile, significantly extended with other RDF (Resource Description Framework) vocabularies and ontologies, primarily SOSA (Sensor, Observation, Sample, and Actuator), I-ADOPT (InteroperAble Descriptions of Observable Property Terminology), and QUDT (Quantities, Units, Dimensions and DataTypes), and with addition of a small number of SPASE-specific properties. We discuss the original functional requirements based on the community-accepted Space and Solar Physics use cases, the SPASE 3.0 model design and schema, resource description examples, and the improvements over the SPASE model current version, We will also discuss the timeline for progress and release of the SPASE 3.0 schema.