curie is intended for questions related to using URL relations and the DRY principle to create semantic data or semantic markup.
A CURIE is a replacement for a QName in non-XML languages which provides namespacing functionality for describing URL relations using shorthand based on prefix/suffix mappings in semantic data (RDFa, JSON-LD, YAML, etc.) without relying on XML namespaces.
For example:
If in RDF I want to use the Dublin Core creator property, then all I need do is this:
dc:creator
and provided that I have the dc namespace prefix defined as http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/, I have effectively represented the following URI:
http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/creator
In HTML it would look like this:
<div prefix="dc: http://purl.org/DC/elements/1.0">
<a property="dc:creator" href="http://example.com">IANA</a>
</div>
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