The East Bay Punk Digital Archive (EBP-DA) is a project spearheaded by Stefano Morello and funded by GC Digital Initiatives, the New Media Lab, the Early Research Initiative, and Lost & Found at The Graduate Center, CUNY. It aims to preserve and make available—to researchers, subcultural participants from around the world, and a general public unfamiliar with the topic—the subjugated knowledge produced by participants in the punk-rock commons that loomed in and around the San Francisco Bay Area between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s. 

The website allows users to search and browse collections and items discretely. The material in the archive—zines, flyers, catalogues, and posters—comes from personal collections of artists, zine-makers, and authors who have trusted me with the digital preservation of their work.

If you were a zine-maker in the East Bay, or own zines covering the scene in the 1980s through the mid-1990s, get in touch and contribute to the development of the EBP-DA!

The EBP-DA also includes Visualizing East Bay Punk (VEBP), a suite of web applications that renders data from the Bay Area punk scene into accessible, analyzable format.

Out of the experience of building the EBP-DA grew the Punk Archiving Toolkit, an open framework of guides, templates, and tools designed to lower the barrier for anyone looking to build their own community-oriented digital archive (think of it as the BYOFL of digital archiving). The toolkit also includes a directory  of over 100 punk archives worldwide.