The interest for the graphic representation of ideas or concepts has become of great interest thanks to the Web development. The navigation maps show the web site page structure and allow guiding the browsing by means of this "physical" structure, but they are unable to represent the conceptual structure of the contents of those pages. To provide guidance though the semantic structure of the contents of a web the use of conceptual maps is necessary. At this moment there is some confusion on what a conceptual map is, and how to implement it on the web. Two supplementary instruments are being implemented, but these are different for the creation of maps made up by concepts and relationships with the purpose of facilitating access to the represented information: conceptual maps and Topic Maps .This article is structured in two parts, in the first part the differences and similarities between the conceptual maps of the Novak proposal (19984) and the Topic Maps standard (ISO/IEC 13250) are analysed. This analysis is the result of the experience in the development of the DigiDocMap application, an editor for the creation of conceptual maps. In the second part of the article, the three versions created by this editor are described, analysing the features of each one of them and the reasons that caused the inclusion of the main changes.In this article the results of a wider research project, whose objective is the development of methods, processes and tools in the context of a Semantic Web are presented. This is a project funded by the Ministry of Education and Culture of Spain (National Plan R&D& I reference HUM2004-03162/FILO).
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