At the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering (WKK) which is part of the profile area “Advanced Materials Engineering” (AME) of RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, the fatigue properties of various metallic materials have been systematically investigated for decades using a huge variety of testing methods. One of the considered material classes are austenitic steels, whose fatigue strength depends on their metastability. Despite orderly and systematic documentation of the test parameters and material data using digital tables and handwritten laboratory notebooks, an analysis of the data obtained across projects and materials is only possible to a limited extent. Furthermore, a subsequent examination of already archived samples and data using newly developed methods requires a lot of time. Particularly in university research, which is associated with relatively high staff fluctuation, maintaining competence and building up research on the basis of previous findings is a continuous challenge, as the metadata required for this has to be documented prepared for subsequent use with big efforts. Hence, in the framework of the NFDI-MatWerk participant project “AME” the electronic laboratory notebook “eLabFTW” is being established for recording, organizing, managing and sharing a wide range of experimental data. eLabFTW is an open-source software and offers, among others, the possibility of using templates to create fixed structures in the entire research area and to facilitate or at least partially automate documentation as well as targeted searching of data. It can be accessed via a web browser, giving researchers the freedom to access it from various devices (computers, tablets and smartphones). The implementation of eLabFTW at the WKK is shown using the example of the digitized recording of test data on metastable austenitic steels from 13 research projects.