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Magic SPARQL endpoints

Instant triplestores for testing and exploration, prepopulated with the RDF/Turtle data that is inlined in the SPARQL endpoint URLs.

How it works

You enter some RDF data in the Turtle format.
The tool generates a URL that directly embeds the RDF data with some additional metadata (serialized, compressed, URL-encoded).
The generated URL is a functional SPARQL endpoint that can be used to query the data stored in the virtual triplestore.

Use cases and implications

When you only need a quick triplestore to do some testing or experiment with SPARQL, it's much easier to use these "magic" SPARQL endpoints than to spin up a regular triplestore or graph database.

Since the data and configuration are stored in the URL itself (similar to how data URIs encapsulate their content), every individual URL corresponds to an immutable (read-only) triplestore that's been seeded with the data from the URL.

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RDF data (Turtle)

@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
@prefix wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .

# Alice knows Bob and Carol
ex:Alice foaf:knows ex:Bob , ex:Carol .

# Bob watched The Terminator, The Matrix, and Back to the Future
ex:Bob ex:watched wd:Q162255 , wd:Q83495 , wd:Q91540 .

# Carol watched The Lion King
ex:Carol ex:watched wd:Q36479 .1
@prefix ex: <http://example.org/> .
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@prefix foaf: <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/> .
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@prefix wd: <http://www.wikidata.org/entity/> .
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# Alice knows Bob and Carol
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ex:Alice foaf:knows ex:Bob , ex:Carol .
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# Bob watched The Terminator, The Matrix, and Back to the Future
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ex:Bob ex:watched wd:Q162255 , wd:Q83495 , wd:Q91540 .
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# Carol watched The Lion King
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ex:Carol ex:watched wd:Q36479 .

The preloaded RDF/Turtle data.

Magic SPARQL endpoint

https://www.leskoff.com/_/N4Ig1iBcIM4A4EMBOBHANiANCAblAjNgC5EbQACcSApgGYCWAHgATWOTMA8AFiXJAHoBbBAFs4aagDoA9kgDmAgHzMpAHQB2lGgxa0ZCWhx59BAxqLQaYUgMYzRA-YYEAGKfmWrN2uk2YA7gAmxrxE-EIBUVIB9GD0QQhECLIKwhpE9EQAnl7qGpoAxMwAgmj0ttTMYBoyATDMAEIyAEbMCBpBzADCyDJommyQZRVVzkY1dQ1DzW2YrOy9SP3eBRrFs4FJttzUXQAqu8z71Eii9BpJcvOHVQCySUhM8x1djQi2YMxEMt9HAGIAVyIgJog3YmyGAW2uy6wUgAEV8AA2ABMqIArBjmPN4QiABwAZgALABObG4kII0n4DHE1yrIo9PpoLZEHZ7Y5HAAy9BkGmYAGkLvJwZAlisoTDOXjCcjiQB2UmqEAAXyAAhttps://www.leskoff.com/_/N4Ig1iBcIM4A4EMBOBHANiANCAblAjNgC5EbQACcSApgGYCWAHgATWOTMA8AFiXJAHoBbBAFs4aagDoA9kgDmAgHzMpAHQB2lGgxa0ZCWhx59BAxqLQaYUgMYzRA-YYEAGKfmWrN2uk2YA7gAmxrxE-EIBUVIB9GD0QQhECLIKwhpE9EQAnl7qGpoAxMwAgmj0ttTMYBoyATDMAEIyAEbMCBpBzADCyDJommyQZRVVzkY1dQ1DzW2YrOy9SP3eBRrFs4FJttzUXQAqu8z71Eii9BpJcvOHVQCySUhM8x1djQi2YMxEMt9HAGIAVyIgJog3YmyGAW2uy6wUgAEV8AA2ABMqIArBjmPN4QiABwAZgALABObG4kII0n4DHE1yrIo9PpoLZEHZ7Y5HAAy9BkGmYAGkLvJwZAlisoTDOXjCcjiQB2UmqEAAXyAA

The generated SPARQL endpoint.