CrossTeX: A Modern Bibliography Management Tool

CrossTeX is a new bibliography management tool that aims to render
bibliographies less error-prone, databases easier to maintain, and
documents easier to cite. It is based on an object-oriented data model
that minimizes redundant information in bibliographic databases. It
enables works to be cited not through syntactic object keys but through
semantic information that uniquely identifies the work. It also supports
customization and automation to a much greater extent in order to avoid
errors, typos, and inconsistencies in bibliographies, while providing
users with fine-grained control over the typesetting of references and
citations. Other features include support for new object types, such as
URLs and patents, that have become common in citations, direct
generation of HTML documents, easy programmability using a well-known
language, and extensive databases of published works. It is
backwards-compatible with existing BibTeX databases, and, overall,
builds on BibTeX's strengths while fundamentally fixing the problems
that lead to errors in BibTeX-formatted documents.