What are CURIES?

[jandrieu]

In the tutorial, https://json-ld.org/primer/latest/#examples-theme there are two references to CURIES, without explanation or reference:

http://ns.example.com/store#
The URL of the vocabulary. Abbreviated as store in CURIES.
http://store.example.com/
The fictitious "Links Bike Shop". Abbreviated as links in CURIES.

It's not clear that that means.

[davidlehn]

https://www.w3.org/TR/2010/NOTE-curie-20101216/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CURIE
(It should use lower s: "CURIEs")

[gkellogg]

JSON-LD doesn't actually use the term "CURIE", but rather Compact IRI, which is essentially the same thing. Also related are PNames and QNames, but all have subtle differences.