Redefining Data Provider: The REST approach To solve Indonesia Lecturer administrative problems
Irwan Alnarus Kautsar, Shinichiro Kubota, Yasuo Musashi, Kenichi Sugitani · 2014
Directorate General Higher Education Institution of Indonesia (DGHEI), request lecturers to provide data or report their academic activities as evidence of them. Lecturers needs to make a portfolio or other document specified by DGHEI. From now on we will call this administrative issues. These issues are becoming a problem when the DGHEI requests these reports from the Lecturers to be updated in the DGHEI Systems in a specific time frame. The present paper discusses the problems that appear in the current system. Some of the problems that Lecturers face are: DGHEI Information Systems service unavailability. As a result of this analysis, a new methodology is proposed in order to solve these issues and others. The new approach, using REST (Representational Sate Transfer) to provide the lecturer data in a distributed manner, allowing sharing capabilities to the current system.