Subproject INF

Metaphor Base Camp: Providing the Common Data Basis and Advancing Digital Research Methods for Religious Metaphors

Within the INF project, scholars of religion, computational linguists, and computer scientists jointly establish the digital research infrastructure of the CRC. The INF project is responsible for three methodological “layers”: (1) The shared Repository, Thesaurus, and Annotation services; (2) Tools for corpus analysis and interactive visualization; (3) Inclusion of advanced computational methods as developed by other sub-projects. This infrastructure fosters a common methodological basis for all projects and enables comparative research across languages and religious traditions.

Publications

CRC 1475 Metaphors of Religion. 2025. “Metaphor Analysis Web Annotation Data from CRC 1475 ‘Metaphors of Religion.’” Version 1.0. Research Data Services (RDS) of the Ruhr University Bochum: ReSeeD Research Data Repository. https://doi.org/10.60517/TT44PQ55T.
Dipper, Stefanie, and Frederik Elwert. 2024. Annotating Metaphorical Mappings: An Implementation of Steen’s Five Step Method. Metaphor Papers 11. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.258.
Dipper, Stefanie, Alexandra Wiemann, and Adam Roussel. 2025. Guidelines zur Annotation von deliberaten Metaphern. Metaphor Papers 27. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.445.
Jurczyk, Thomas, Roman Seidel, Adrian Bernhard, Tatjana Scheffler, and Johann Buessow. 2025. “Text Mining Tafsir: Compilation and Preliminary Explorations of a Curated Corpus of 80 Qurʾanic Commentaries.” Journal of Digital Islamicate Research 3 (1): 97–167. https://doi.org/10.1163/27732363-bja00010.
Krech, Volkhard, Tim Karis, and Frederik Elwert. 2023. Metaphors of Religion: A Conceptual Framework. Metaphor Papers 1. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.282.
Krech, Volkhard, and Dominika Motak. 2025. Systematische Überlegungen zum Thesaurus religiöser Metaphern (TRM) in religionssoziologischer und soziolinguistischer Perspektive. Metaphor Papers 18. https://doi.org/10.46586/mp.436.
Reimann, Sebastian, Lina Rodenhausen, Frederik Elwert, and Tatjana Scheffler. 2024. “By a Thread: Encoding Online Forum Data in TEI.” Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, nos. Issue 17 (April): Issue 17. https://doi.org/10.4000/1209k.
Tögel, Philipp, Henning Gebhard, Frederik Elwert, Stefanie Dipper, Makar Fedorov, Vandana Jha, Volkhard Krech, and Danah Tonne. 2025. “Data-Rich Web Annotations: Embedding Datasets to Link Complex Metaphor Analyses with Their Textual Basis.” Paper presented at SemDH 2025, Portoroz. Second International Workshop of Semantic Digital Humanities, 2025. https://doi.org/10.5445/IR/1000183935.
Tonne, Danah, Germaine Götzelmann, Nicoletta Pütz, Maximilian Walz, and Kathrin Leonie Schmidt. (2024) 2025. tAKITA. Java. August 20, 2024, released June 18. https://github.com/kit-data-manager/takita.