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Description
Data and Integration Services for Heliophysics (DISH) at HDRL/NASA is modernizing its metadata pipelines by building more automated, interoperable systems. Rich SPASE records continue to play a central role in support of science discovery, with much of their metadata often sourced from other systems. We are modernizing these metadata acquisition processes by programmatically connecting SPASE to other metadata sources relevant to Heliophysics (e.g., FITS, HAPI, and ISTP). Even with modernized pipelines, significant additional work is needed to determine dataset-level fields and translate data-specific terminology to science-wide vocabularies. So, we will also present updates on AI tooling and ontological development that are beginning to address those needs with building momentum. Connecting the data, instruments, and observatories described in SPASE to other resources such as the software and research data that cite them is another important component needed to support science discovery. However, current external infrastructure supporting these citations are problematic, with many citations never having any effect. We will describe the status of these efforts and point towards improvements to come, including our new NASA Heliophysics Research Repository on Zenodo with semi-automated curation.