The Research Data Alliance (RDA) is a global initiative with over 2,800 members from more than 100 countries that aims to build the social and technical bridges that enable open sharing of data.The RDA vision is researchers and innovators openly sharing data across technologies, disciplines, and countries to address the grand challenges of society. Bridget will report on two recent RDA humanities outreach efforts: 1) a 28 May workshop hosted by RDA-US at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, USA 2) a 2 July 2015 meetup at DH 2015 in Sydney.