On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 13:51,  e.poleg@gmail.com wrote:

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.

Yes, I have used it as an example many times when talking about the need for good long-term preservation of digital resources.

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.

Not at the moment. I received a response to my most recent enquiry that tells me that plans are afoot to have the site back up in the next few months.  Some of the delay has been based on the introduction of tighter security regulations for UEA. So hopefully your email here, and my prodding them, now means that it will eventually reappear.  If it doesn't, keep nagging me, and I'll pass that on. :-)

-James