After careful reflection and in consultation with our board of trustees, we have decided to sunset Constellate, our platform to support teaching and learning textual analysis. We will sunset the service at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, closing it on July 1, 2025. All users will have full access through June 30, 2025.
The Constellate team will be communicating this news externally to our participants, users, and trialing institutions beginning November 21, 2024. Copies of these messages are provided below, along with external talking points and FAQs.
This was a difficult decision. We're very proud of what Constellate has accomplished in advancing computational literacy and text analysis skills across academia. However, we have concluded that continuing to support the platform and classes is not sustainable for ITHAKA in the long term. Despite the meaningful impact we've had with our participating institutions, we haven't found a path to achieve the kind of broad-scale impact that aligns with our mission as a nonprofit organization.
What is Constellate?
Prepare students for a data-driven future with Constellate
Constellate is the only text analysis platform that integrates access to scholarly content and open educational resources into a cloud-based lab to help faculty more easily and effectively teach text analysis and data skills.
With Constellate, learners across all disciplines can apply text analysis methods to datasets, and hone their skills with support from on-demand tutorials, live classes taught by experts, and engagement with an inspiring user community.
Value Proposition
Everything you need to teach, learn, and perform data analysis
Constellate is a comprehensive service for institutions of higher eduction that combines the content and tools users need to teach, learn, and perform data analysis. It provides a well-defined curriculum and robust tutorials, live classes taught by experts, and an inspiring and supportive community of users, along with millions of scholarly documents and primary source materials from JSTOR and partners.
Key Message by Audience
Librarians: Your faculty wants to teach data analysis for the career success of their students. Support their skills with workshops, tools, and data for research.
Instructors/Faculty Members: Introduce much-needed text analytics skills in class using Constellate tutorials or your own. Find the support to improve your abilities and a community of peers for inspiration.
Students: Prepare for the careers of the future: learn text analytics by taking Constellate classes or classes offered by the library. Study by yourself using Constellate tutorials.
Researchers: Easily access more than 30 million identically formatted journal articles, books, and newspaper issues for your work. Find the support to improve your skills.
Key Resources
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Training Resources
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