Zotero/Perl integration
Zotero is in my opinion the best solution to citation management available. It's a firefox/xulrunner based solution for collecting and maintaining bibliographic data and it's associated full text. Zotero has a cloud based API but also an internal (largely undocumented) Javascript API. I find the JS API much more interesting than the cloud API due to having total control over my data (and works offline etc etc...).
Two frustrations I've had with a lack of good alternative to the msword integration code, and problems with interacting with the internals of a running firefox/xulrunner. I finally cracked open mozrepl, and the cpan module MozRepl and prototyped a bidirectional bridge between Zotero and perl.
The code is here, and should be a useful start for anyone who wants to do any bibliographic data mangling in perl. I'm not going to publish it to CPAN until I work out how to test it properly.
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Fantastic! I let all my bibliography software lapse years ago, but I'd be all over this if I wasn't doing other work.
I used Zotero when I did my last degree and recommend it highly. Especially for storing not only citations, but PDFs of the papers. Really nice for multiple computers: put it together at home, pull it up for advisor at school, then again in lab for coding. Export to BibTeX as needed.
Yeah I want a 100% markdown based solution, so bibtex doesn't do it for me (largely to do with often working with co-authors). Which means pandoc (haskell markdown to various formats round trip parser including pseudopod and docx apparently). Current markdown/pandoc/citation solutions that integrate zotero are awkward and require intermediate files (kind of like bibtex) and they don't spare my co-author's feelings because they leave cryptic citations in the document.
But yeah I envisage this module being super-useful for various things including doing interesting things with full text search and collaboration without using Zotero's centralised cloud solution.
Regarding using Pandoc Markdown + BibTeX for papers, have you seen Jakob Voss' makedoc?