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URC
Uniform Resource Characteristics, a term used by the IETF to describe a minimal set of metadata associated with a resource on the Internet. A URC can be thought of as a bare-bones catalog record. There is currently no consensus on content or form for a URC.
URI
Uniform Resource Identifier, a broader class of identifier that includes URLs, URNs, and URCs.

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URL
Uniform Resource Locator, the standard form for identifier for resources on the World Wide Web in early 1996.

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URN
Uniform Resource Name, a proposed form of identifier for digital resources on the Internet that would be independent of location and valid for the long term. No standard form of URN exists, but several prototype schemes are under development.

LC is working with the handle scheme for URNs from the Corporation for National Research Initiatives in a prototype digital archive.

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