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Addressing the challenges faced by non-experts in navigating Resource Description Framework (RDF) triplestores and executing SPARQL queries, ForestQB employs a novel integrated approach. This approach combines a graphical user interface (GUI) with a conversational user interface (CUI), thereby greatly simplifying the process of query formulation and making observational LD accessible to users without expertise in RDF or SPARQL. Developed through insights derived from a comprehensive ethnographic study involving wildlife researchers, ForestQB is specifically designed to improve the accessibility of SPARQL endpoints and facilitate the exploration of observational LD in wildlife research contexts. To evaluate the effectiveness of our approach, we conducted a user experiment. 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