Dear James et al.,
Many thanks for letting us know (and for taking part in creating Cursus). There's probably a lesson to be learnt regarding future projects, their storage and copyrights.
On a more practical note - is there a person / email address to whom I can write, asking for the database to be reinstated? Perhaps OTHER MEMBERS OF THE DM-L may want to send an email as well, demonstrating to the UEA the value of the database and its appeal to the wider academic public.
Cheers
Eyal
On , James Cummings <James.Cummings@digitalmedievalist.org> wrote:
> Hi Franz and Eyal (and DM-L),
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> I worked on the project and was responsible for most of its technical
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> development during its funded period and some of the intellectual
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> content (transcription, markup, etc.), and then Richard Lewis did
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> further development on this afterwards. It was running perfectly find
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> until a server replacement meant that the server it was on was
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> decommissioned. Since neither Richard nor I work for UEA any more
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> they were unwilling to let us have access to their servers to set it
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> up again. We have approached them several times to try and sort this
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> out, it really wouldn't be too difficult. All the data is safe and
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> backed up so the site could certainly be put up again. The problem
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> comes that since David's death all IPR residing in the project belongs
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> to the University of East Anglia, rather than myself or Richard. (This
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> is in spite of David's own desire for this material to be openly
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> available.) I spent 3 years of my life working on it and would love
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> it to be put back up. I'm occasionally contacted by people who wish
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> access to it, and I forward them on to UEA as reminders while pointing
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> them to the wayback machine version. Your message has spurred me to
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> Apologies,
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> -James
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> On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 09:55, Franz Fischer F.Fischer@ria.ie> wrote:
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> > Dear Eyal,
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> > Very sadly the CURSUS project is dead. You access most of ththe material via
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> > Internet Archive's WayBack machine:
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> > http://replay.waybackmachine.org/20061017205352/http://www.cursus.uea.ac.uk/
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> > Best, Franz
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> > From: dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca [mailto:dm-l-bounces@uleth.ca] On Behalf Of eyal
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> > poleg
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> > Sent: 17 July 2011 16:43
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> > To: dm-l@uleth.ca
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> > Subject: [dm-l] Cursus Liturgical Databade
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> > Dear List Members,
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> > A few years back I much enjoyed using the Cursus database - a wonderful
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> > source for the study of English liturgy created by the late David Chadd.
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> > Does anyone know what happened to the site (http://www.cursus.uea.ac.uk/)?
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> > It appears to have disappeared, and the email address provided is also a
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> > With many thanks
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> > Eyal Poleg
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