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Email

karen.thompson@unimelb.edu.au

Credentials


Position
Senior Research Data Specialist
School of Computing and Information Systems
Education
Masters (Coursework)
University of Melbourne
Bachelors Degree
RMIT University

Institute Of Actuaries Of Australia
Bachelors Degree
University of Queensland
ORCID

0000-0002-5498-0556

Ms Karen Thompson

Senior Research Data Specialist
School of Computing and Information Systems

29 Scholarly works
0 Projects

HIGHLIGHTS

  • 2026

    Presentation

    Presentation to SAA 91st Annual Meeting (30 April 2026): 'Khipus: What We Think We Know and What We Want to Know (and How We’re Trying to Find Out)'
    DOI: 10.26188/32227047
  • 2026

    Presentation

    Talk to Harvard Andean Working Group (24 March 2026): 'Considering data collected from archaeological objects and how we need to understand its nature to make sense of analyses'
    DOI: 10.26188/32227014
  • 2025

    Presentation

    Presentation to DHA25 : Karen Thompson : Fail to Understand Your Data, and Your Analysis Will Fail
    DOI: 10.26188/30826838
  • 2025

    Report

    Notes and Corrections to Aschers' Published Khipu Data
    DOI: 10.26188/30526775
  • 2025

    Journal article

    Hespi: a pipeline for automatically detecting information from herbarium specimen sheets
    DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biaf042
  • 2025

    Dataset

    Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference (KBCR) : Survey and figures
    DOI: 10.26188/28786049
  • 2025

    Dataset

    Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference (KBCR) Resource
    DOI: 10.26188/25661322
Karen Thompson

RECENT SCHOLARLY WORKS

  • 2025

    Journal article

    Connecting Objects and Literature: A Case Study with Khipus, the Khipu-Biblio Cross-Reference
    DOI: 10.1017/aap.2025.3
  • 2025

    Journal article

    A Numerical Connection Between Two Khipus
    DOI: 10.1080/00776297.2024.2411789
  • 2024

    Dataset

    Test datasets for evaluating automated transcription of primary specimen labels on herbarium specimen sheets
    DOI: 10.26188/25648902

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