The 'integrative database', physically implemented in a single database schema, is conceptually organized around several modules, which gather tables related to scientific fields.
All components and layers (as described before) were modeled into a hierarchical database scheme and implemented in a relational database system.
There are several different database design schemes that can be implemented in a particular database system.
SenseLab is implemented in a relational database framework called Entity, Attribute, Value, with Class and Relationships (EAV/CR) that allows for the structure of the database to be altered (creating new tables, or new columns within a table) without having to rebuild the database or reprogram the various interfaces.
These vocabularies were implemented in a MySQL database.
To facilitate handling of data, the Case Report Forms were implemented in an extranet database provided by CINECA (Casalecchio di Reno, Italy), an Interuniversity Consortium of 15 Italian Universities, using the AMR Advanced Multicenter Researchh) methodology, which allows the management of the whole research using standard web-browsers.
While the SDM is abstract in nature, it defines a concrete framework that can be easily implemented in any database and does not constrain the data and metadata that can be stored.
It can be implemented in any database, XML Markup Language, or text format, for example in JavaScript Object Notation for Linked Data, JSON-LD [9].
Due to some of the features in our system that require manual annotation, it is not easy to be implemented in a large music database.
This was implemented in a local MySQL database and will be expanded as and when such studies can make p-value data available.
