Variations projects (Music Library)

While work on the first project known as "VARIATIONS" began in the early 1990s, the first system was put into production on April 1, 1996. Since then, students and faculty using the William and Gayle Cook Music Library on the Bloomington Campus of Indiana University have been able to access a continually growning collection of digitzed sound recordings and scores from the world's first ever digital music library.

The original system was retired in May of 2005, in favor of Variations2, a system developed at Indiana University with funding from the National Science Foundation and National Endowment for the Humanities.

In September of 2005, Indiana University received a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services to continue the development of this groundbreaking system, and has begun work to create Variations3.