New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: How to manage our digital assets (photos etc.)

Ask HN: How to manage our digital assets (photos etc.)
3 by jscott_nz | 0 comments on Hacker News.
I'm thinking about all the digital assets I've collected over the decades and looking into the future - I don't trust 3rd party providers to last the course. Here's what I know: 1) Online providers don't last (or I don't stick): When I had a Nokia N95 I uploaded to Nokia Ovi (gone), When I had a camera, I uploaded to Flickr (gone), When I had an Android I uploaded to Google Photos (still there but I only just remembered), When I was naive I uploaded to Facebook (still there) 2) I've got lots of disks and CDROMs filled with photo backups 3) I want to be able to access these assets, and search them, must have face recognition and tagging (gotta find those cat pics) I'm looking for two things: 1) Some suggestions for solutions for this. 2) I'm currently leaning towards running/building my own on AWS: What metadata is useful for organising your own assets? What would make a great long term asset tool? Cheers