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Enhancing Music Access at UConn: The Variations Pilot Project

The Variations Pilot Project at the University of Connecticut aims to revolutionize digital music access for students and faculty. Presented by Anna Kijas, this initiative differentiates between the Digital Audio Reserve (D.A.R.) and Variations. While D.A.R. offers limited course-specific streamed audio, Variations provides access to entire albums, track information, and tools for creating playlists and analysis timelines. The pilot involves collaboration with the Library’s ITS department, testing, and implementation, with future plans to expand access and replace D.A.R. with Variations in more venues.

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Enhancing Music Access at UConn: The Variations Pilot Project

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  1. Variations 6.0 Pilot UConn Summer 2010 - 2011 Presented by Anna Kijas Music & Dramatic Arts Librarian University of Connecticut October 15, 2010

  2. Background on Digital Audio @ UConn 2004 – present • M&DA Library uses a system called Digital Audio Reserve (D.A.R.) • Provides streamed audio access via HuskyCT to music owned by the University Libraries or the faculty member. • Access is limited to instructor and students enrolled in participating courses. • Access ends once course/semester ends.

  3. D.A.R. vs. Variations • DAR is a course reserve system • Allows students to only access those tracks from an album or collection that have been uploaded and digitized by the M&DA Library. • Does not provide access to entire albums nor to the OPAC record or album information. • No optional faculty or student tools. • Variations is a digital music library (catalog) and learning system • Allows students to listen to entire albums. • Includes information for each track and album. • Allows faculty/students to create playlists, drills, and timelines for analysis.

  4. Audio Player

  5. Timeline Tool

  6. Pilot Timeline • May – June 2010 • Discussion and agreement for collaboration with Library ITS department • July – August 2010 • Implementation and testing of client • September 2010 – June 2011 • Digitizing albums • Installation on one M&DAL PC • Created client download (player and timeline only) • Continuous testing of client

  7. Time & Effort • Read and understand the documentation – 2 hours (Anna/ITS) • Install the software - 2 days (ITS) • Configure, monitor, tweak, etc. the client - 1 hour (ITS) • Create the download package for variations – ½ hour (ITS) • Digitize album – 10-15 minutes per album (Anna)

  8. ITS Specifics • UConn’s trial Variations server is a RedHat EL 5 virtual machine hosted on VmWare Server on a Dell PowerEdge 2900 server. • The VM has 2 CPUs and 500 MB RAM. • RHEL 5 is the OS recommended by the developers. Using it makes following the installation instructions much easier, as there are many software dependencies that need to be installed for Variations to work. • If Variations is moved into production after the trial, we’ll move the VM into our production infrastructure, which is a highly redundant ESX platform and SAN.

  9. Phase 2 of Pilot • Scan scores to accompany the streaming audio • Create OPAC access • Install on all M&DAL PCs

  10. Future Plans • Install on classroom and lab PCs • If approved, replace D.A.R with Variations • Create digital music library of core repertoire

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