Details of each article's title, author, and publication number are entered into the administration software, and the scripts take care of the necessary updates of the Web pages. When we were developing Living Reviews, we concentrated on a core set of ideas necessary to put a worthwhile scientific publication on the World Wide Web. As individual authors took the basic structure we had developed and started to use it to communicate, they brought us the opportunity to refine our thinking. The appearance of Living Reviews has evolved since its debut in January 1998. No two articles we have published have exactly the same format.
Authors have different writing styles and write about varied subjects.
But authors also interpret and use our format differently. Carlo Rovelli, for example, used the fact that articles are broken down into different sections, each a separate HTML document, to create a document that could be read in different ways by different users. Rovelli recommends different paths through the article, based on readers' interests, experiences, and technical backgrounds. Each article, in fact, gives us something new to think about. Our presentation has evolved over time.