Kew's World Grass species descriptions have recently been made available over the internet, but management of this descriptive resource is still difficult. The descriptions consist of 11,000 species and 700 generic descriptions in DELTA format using a suite of 1090 mainly morphological characters. While the CSIRO DELTA software has supported this dataset well for many years, the lack of support or development of this software has led to the need for a more sustainable tool. Furthermore the associated nomenclature database is only available through the download of an MS Access database application. The World Grass Species project has been set up to help integrate these two resources and to make them available through a web portal. Combining an industry leading Content Management System (Drupal – http://drupal.org) with existing TDWG standards to integrate and present this data facilitates the development process, and simplifies the extension of the tool using community developed modules.