THE WELCH COMPANY
440 Davis Court #1602
San Francisco, CA 94111-2496
415 781 5700
November 26, 2002
04 00074 61 02112601
Mr. Garold L. Johnson
dynalt@dynalt.com
Dynamic Alternatives
PO Box 59237
Norwalk, CA 90652
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Subject:
CaseMap Software Evolving Toward SDS
Laying Groundwork for Culture of Knowledge
Dear Gary,
I talked to Morris this evening, and he is planning to send you the code for
Medit. Will check with him again on Friday to follow up on this.
.. Your
record today
on CaseMap shows continued improvement. The next step is to
add some links and flesh out the analysis, similar
to what appears in your email.
Guidance on linking
may help on this. Please let me know if you need more help.
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Thanks for information on
CaseMap
for managing litigation. Very glad to see
people starting to care about linking the record. As
you say, this underscores the value of SDS integrating a critical mass of
features to improve productivity, as shown in the record on
November 13, analysing a review of the
Ecco Pro program
you submitted at that time.
.. As well, our review of
PDF issues
on November 19 shows that adding
addressability to PDF materials is very helpful, both in adding usefulness to
PDF, and in growing cultural awareness of the value about the
things SDS does
that people care about,
which you raised in a letter on February 17 earlier this year.
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Another feature of Casesoft that caught my attention in one of the links you
provided is support for
chronology
to understand cause and effect, commonly
called "causation" in the law. Chronology is a special form of addressability
and linking. Alphabet technology is another form of linking small meanings
into larger understandings. Tools to augment human thinking are common in our
culture, so eventually people get around to integrating tools that leverage
human intelligence. We seem to be on the path of progress.
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Just about everything CaseMap promotes has a correlation with SDS, including
support for
analysis, for tracking
people
and
organizations,
and fees for training and support align with
Com Metrics services.
Very interesting research.
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Sincerely,