The Web Technologies Research (WebTech) Group was established in 2001 by Helen Ashman.

There are a number of projects currently running at WebTech, including link-by-example, proxy-based linking, link modelling, hypermedia system modelling, adaptive hypermedia in education, user modelling, dimensional informatics and bioinformatics visualisations, among others. The group's research has received funding from EPSRC, BBSRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the EU Minerva project, BT Labs, Amino Communications, the Royal Society, the University of Nottingham, and the School of Computer Science and IT.

In August 2003, WebTech organised and hosted the successful and eminently enjoyable ACM Hypertext '03 conference.We are continuing our association with the conference series with Helen Ashman acting as joint Programme Chair of Hypertext '04 with Dave De Roure from Southampton, as well as being on the PC for Hypertext '05. However we have many other activities, including being on the ACM SIGWEB executive committee, joint programme chairing AH 2006 plus the editorial boards for IEEE Internet Computing, the Journal of Digital Information and the New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia, plus a long-standing participation in the WWW conference committees since programme-chairing WWW7, among others.

The group has around 15 members, including Helen Ashman and Tim Brailsford as project leaders, with research staff including Adam Moore, Craig Stewart, and numerous doctoral students and affilliate members. For much of 2003, Ted Nelson was a Visiting Professor with WebTech, and this collaboration is continuing with the bioinformatics visualisation and dimensional informatics projects.

Some publications from the group include (others are listed on the group's publications page):

• Ashman H, Relations modelling sets of hypermedia links and navigation, The Computer Journal, 43(5), OUP, 2000, pp 345-363.
• Ashman H Electronic document addressing: dealing with change, ACM Computing Surveys, 32(3), 2000, 201-212.
• Brailsford T, Stewart C, Zakaria M R and Moore A, Autonavigation, Links and Narrative in an Adaptive Web-Based Integrated Learning Environment, Proceedings of the 11th International World Wide Web Conference (WWW2002), 2002.
• Cailliau R and Ashman H Hypertext in the Web - a history, ACM Computing Surveys, 31(4es), December 1999
• Martin D and Ashman H Goate: XLink and beyond, Proceedings of Hypertext '02, 2002, pp 142-143.
• Martin D, Truran M and Ashman H The end-point is not enough, Proceedings of Hypertext '04, 2004, pp 128-129.
• Moore A Goulding J Brailsford T and Ashman H Practical Applitudes: case studies of applications of the ZigZag hypermedia system, Proceedings of Hypertext '04, 2004, ACM, pp 143-152.
• Moore A Brailsford T and Stewart C Personally tailored teaching in WHURLE using conditional transclusion, Proceedings of the Twelfth ACM Conference on Hypertext and Hypermedia (Hypertext 01), 2001, pp 163-164.