Motivated by the challenge of comparability and interoperability between its extremely heterogeneous subprojects, the CRC deliberately puts emphasis on digital methods. Thus, the shared infrastructure, provided by the information infrastructure (INF) project, does not only support the individual research projects, but fosters conceptual integration. Utilizing this infrastructure the subprojects annotate religious texts to make metaphorical language explicit. For this process we adapt the Five Step Method (Steen, 2011) to not only mark the presence of metaphors, but to include complex analysis of the structural functioning of the metaphor and the resulting domain mappings as well. As a standardization measure we append an additional step, where each concept is linked to a conceptual thesaurus.