Vincent van Altena
PhD candidate
research
In January 2016, I started a research
entitled "What has Athens to do with Jerusalem?", which is an
interdisciplinary investigation on using spatial-temporal research
in New Testament exegesis. The PhD research seeks to contribute to
both the disciplines of geo-information and New Testament research.
Therefore, I will develop a method to
model temporal aspects of geo-information. The method will be
proofed by applying it to the specific domain of new testament
exegesis. The developed method will be a generic solution for
modelling time to be able to get more insights into the temporal
aspects of geo-information.For the field of New Testament Exegesis
it will develop an alternative method for interpretation of texts by
looking to the events from a spatial-temporal perspective. Proper
attention will be paid to the field of hermeneutics as linking pin
in interpreting ancient texts by modern spatial-temporal research.
During my research I am supervised by:
about
I am a senior GIS specialist at the
Dutch Kadaster in the department of Customer Solutions. I obtained
my MSc degree (GIS, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) in 2015. For my
thesis (Improvement of automatic generalisation of man-made water
networks for topographic maps by context-dependent pruning) I
received the UniGIS International Academic Excellence award. My
bachelor studies in Theology I finished in 2008 at Ede Christian
University of Applied Science with a thesis on Education in a
local church.
Prior and during my MSc I have held
several positions at Kadaster Geo-Informatie (formerly
Topografische Dienst) as digitizer, operator, cartographer and GIS
specialist. Since 2016, I combine my full-time job with a position
as guest researcher (PhD) at the Delft University of Technology on
a interdisciplinary study on Geographical Information Science and
New Testament Exegesis.
I co-authored some academic and
professional articles and co-edited an atlas on the history of
Dutch topography. I am a member of the commission Geovisualisatie
(Nederlands Centrum voor Geodesie en Geo-informatica (NCG)), the
scientific program committee (ICA-ISPRS Workshop on Generalisation
and Multiple Representation), the STW User Commitee #11300 (5D
Data Modelling: Full integration of 2D/3D Space, Time and Scale
Dimensions) and the ICA Commission on Generalisation and Multiple
Representation.
