Resumen de Convergence of concept maps and topic maps: prototype basis

Piedad Garrido Picazo , Jesús Tramullas Saz

• Our paper tries to open a discussion about a new research topic: Topic Maps, which we think it can be interesting to incorporate into software engineering projects as a technical terminology. Not only it is a new profound paradigms shift but also an unknown vision of how to represent knowledge in a smart way. We can approach to the paradigm thanks to the Project EA-2003-52, supported by the Spanish Ministry of Education, about subject gateways. We explain the software used to develop the first version, and while we were developing it, the reflection that make we think: Can concept maps be topic maps, when they begin to display lots of information in a relational way?