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Custom HTML form front end, SPARQL endpoint back end

Your website's users sending SPARQL queries, even if they haven't heard of SPARQL.

In a recent Twitter exchange, Dr Joanne Paul asked “Does/can this exist? A website where I enter a title (eg. ’earl of pembroke’) and a year (eg. 1553) and it spits out who held that title in that year (in this case, William Herbert).” Michelle Watson replied “I bet you could probably write SPARQL query to Wikipedia that would come close to doing that. Not sure how you’d embed that into a webpage though.” I replied to that: “Have an HTML form that…