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Posted by ebuise
2001-03-27 13:13:14

Perhaps you are right. The perception counts. But, in fact a mindmap has a central idea worked out radial (often clockwise), which is a graphical representation of a hierarchy. A concept map or topic map on the contrary, can have more then one ideas on which one can focus and thus work out: towards another topic or concept or moving away from it. In other words a concept map, with cross-linked concepts, is a network.

You could -for instance- compare the website of http://www.mindjet.com with http://www.topicmaps.com. Or you could do a search on conceptmapping or topicmapping.

The graphical representation has it’s particular advantages as long as the hierarchy does not become too complex or large (deep or broad) and when it needs no intensive manipulations/alterations.

Maxthink is a hierarchy processor (http://www.maxthink.net) and Houdini (alas still the DOS version, also by Maxthink inc.) is the text-style network processor.

Ernest.

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