We're making a big step towards upgrading the "managing-an-inventory" side of biodiversity informatics with some model improvements and a containerization experiment. From 96 well plates to cabinets and rooms, this generic but flexible system gives researchers the ability to organize their material as they as it matters to their work.
Bonus, as we aspire to here, the viz library we built stands alone as an agnostic interface for your creative use- https://github.com/SpeciesFileGroup/encase (docs coming).