Suggestions and experiences on the management of photos/recordings?

For quite a few years now, my photo management workflow has consisted of taking tons of pictures, dump them in some hard drive, and forget about them... I literally have a stack of 6 old HDDs that I need to backup at home.
But now I've finally decided to rationalize the management of the photos: I bought a NAS with 1.5 TB capacity, so that I (and the rest of the family) have a central place to dump the pictures. Hopefully this will facilitate management and backup of these kinds of resources.
My problem is the following: what kind of application should I use to manage that data? I'm not sure of what exists, and I'm not even sure of what covers best my needs, so my requirements are not very precise, but in a nutshell I would like something that allows me:
- to easily tag sets of pictures (locations, people, context, etc) so that I can easily output the sets I wish
- lightweight, simple and reliable, but with a comfy front end so that the less computer inclined family members have a fighting chance of using it
- allowing sharing with friends/family, and consequently managing the appropriate privacy levels
- managing seamlessly pictures/recordings/videos: any self-authored media
- whatever functionality these kinds of apps have that I'm unaware but you find important
- the ability to script it with python would be a plus
I know this sounds a lot like flickr/facebook/myspace etc, but I don't wish to use third parties to manage my data. I think digikam is capable of doing this, but as I said, I have no experience with these kinds of applications, so I would like to hear your suggestions and experiences.

I was searching for applications that can provide me with the same functionality as ones I use with KDE, with the hopes that I can move away from KDE since I really can't stand the way it's moving now. Digikam, Amarok and K3b have been musts for me, but a lot of searching has shown me some possible alternatives:
Digikam - (Staying away from DE library dependencies like GNOME or KDE) to Intipunku (http://intipunku.berlios.de/) and gtkam
Amarok - Sonata and maybe songbird.
K3b - this will probably take a few apps to replace the functionality, but right now I'm going with Recorder, which is a front end for cdrecord, etc., and Asunder for ripping CDs.

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