AutoSINTA (Automatic SINTA Kemdikbud Synchronization)

An unofficial application to automatically bulk-sync SINTA Kemdikbud author publication data without human labor.

1. About

AutoSINTA is an automatic SINTA Kemdikbud synchronization program written in Python. This unofficial program accesses the SINTA API using the requests Python module. It helps SINTA administrators in any Indonesian university to carry out author publication data update without manual labor (i.e., sync per author instead of in bulk). AutoSINTA is open source and licensed under GNU General Public License v3.0. Anyone can make edit to the application and distribute the program as long as the terms in such a GNU v3.0 license is fulfilled.

AutoSINTA is developed by S. Lykamanuella, an undergraduate physics student in Satya Wacana Christian University (SWCU). This project was in collaboration with Directorate of Research and Community Service of SWCU.

Also visit the AutoSINTA web page.

2. Download

You can download the latest version of AutoSINTA from the release menu in this GitHub repository.

3. How to use

1. Ensure that your computer is connected to the internet;

2. Download AutoSINTA using the provided link;

3. Upon successful download, double-click the AutoSINTA to launch the program;

4. Click "Run Anyway" when the Windows Defender SmartScreen popup appears;

Also read this article on running an unsigned Windows program.

The AutoSINTA program is guaranteed to be virus-less. You can check and audit the source code yourself in this GitHub repository.

5. The AutoSINTA window will appear as follows;

6. Enter your SINTA Author Verificator (AV) on the "Username" and "Password" input fields. Then click the "LOGIN" button;

7. Ensure the following dialog window pops up;

If login failed, check your internet connection and login credentials, then try again.

8. Upon successful login, determine the types of publication you want to synchronize;

9. Click the "Load Author List" button to load the list of university authors you have access to. The following dialog will pop up once the author list has been loaded;

10. Click the "Sync" button. The following window will appear;

12. To synchronize the publication data of all authors, select "Sync all SINTA authors" and then click "SYNC NOW";

13. To synchronize only a selected list of authors, perform the following:

• Select "Only sync selected authors";
• Send the list of authors that will be synchronized from the left table to the right table, as shown;
• Click "SYNC NOW";

14. The SINTA synchronization process will commence momentarily. Wait until finished;

15. Upon the popping up of the following dialog, the synchronization process is complete;

16. You can double check in the Author Verification admin dashboard that the selected authors' publication data has been queued for synchronization;

17. Click File > Quit to terminate the AutoSINTA program.