diff --git a/apiGo/api/Tags.go b/apiGo/api/Tags.go
index 5c3bfb1..552b515 100644
--- a/apiGo/api/Tags.go
+++ b/apiGo/api/Tags.go
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ func getFromDB() {
 	 * @apiSuccess {string} TagName name of the Tag
 	 */
 	api.AddHandler("getAllTags", api.TagNode, api.PermUser, func(context api.Context) {
-		query := "SELECT tag_id,tag_name from tags"
+		query := "SELECT tag_id,tag_name from tags ORDER BY tag_name"
 		context.Json(readTagsFromResultset(database.Query(query)))
 	})
 }
diff --git a/apiGo/housekeeping/HouseKeeping.go b/apiGo/housekeeping/HouseKeeping.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dbc453e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apiGo/housekeeping/HouseKeeping.go
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+package housekeeping
+
+import "fmt"
+
+func RunHouseKeepingTasks() {
+	fmt.Println("Runnint houskeeping tasks!")
+
+	fmt.Println("Deduplicating Tags")
+	deduplicateTags()
+
+	fmt.Println("Deduplicating Tags assigned to videos")
+	deduplicateVideoTags()
+
+	fmt.Println("Fix missing video metadata like ratio")
+	fixMissingMetadata()
+
+	fmt.Println("Finished housekeeping")
+}
diff --git a/apiGo/housekeeping/MissingVideoMetaData.go b/apiGo/housekeeping/MissingVideoMetaData.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3b9a20c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apiGo/housekeeping/MissingVideoMetaData.go
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+package housekeeping
+
+func fixMissingMetadata() {
+	// todo
+}
diff --git a/apiGo/housekeeping/TagDeduplication.go b/apiGo/housekeeping/TagDeduplication.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0493e28
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apiGo/housekeeping/TagDeduplication.go
@@ -0,0 +1,86 @@
+package housekeeping
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"openmediacenter/apiGo/database"
+)
+
+func deduplicateTags() {
+	// find all duplicate tags
+
+	// gives first occurence of duplicate
+	query := `
+SELECT
+    tag_name
+FROM
+    tags
+GROUP BY tag_name
+HAVING COUNT(tag_name) > 1`
+	rows := database.Query(query)
+	duplicates := []string{}
+	if rows != nil {
+		for rows.Next() {
+			var id string
+			err := rows.Scan(&id)
+			if err != nil {
+				panic(err.Error()) // proper Error handling instead of panic in your app
+			}
+			duplicates = append(duplicates, id)
+		}
+	} else {
+		// nothing to do
+		return
+	}
+
+	fmt.Print("deleting duplicate tag ids: ")
+	fmt.Println(duplicates)
+
+	for _, el := range duplicates {
+		query := fmt.Sprintf("SELECT tag_id FROM tags WHERE tag_name='%s'", el)
+		rows := database.Query(query)
+		ids := []uint32{}
+		for rows.Next() {
+			var id uint32
+			err := rows.Scan(&id)
+			if err != nil {
+				panic(err.Error()) // proper Error handling instead of panic in your app
+			}
+			ids = append(ids, id)
+		}
+
+		// id to copy other data to
+		mainid := ids[0]
+
+		// ids to copy from
+		copyids := ids[1:]
+
+		fmt.Printf("Migrating %s\n", el)
+		migrateTags(mainid, copyids)
+	}
+}
+
+func migrateTags(destid uint32, sourcids []uint32) {
+	querytempl := `
+UPDATE video_tags 
+SET 
+    tag_id = %d
+WHERE
+    tag_id = %d`
+
+	for _, id := range sourcids {
+		err := database.Edit(fmt.Sprintf(querytempl, destid, id))
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("failed to set id from %d to %d\n", id, destid)
+			return
+		}
+		fmt.Printf("Merged %d into %d\n", id, destid)
+
+		// now lets delete this tag
+		query := fmt.Sprintf(`DELETE FROM tags WHERE tag_id=%d`, id)
+		err = database.Edit(query)
+		if err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("failed to delete Tag %d", id)
+			return
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/apiGo/housekeeping/VideoTagDeduplication.go b/apiGo/housekeeping/VideoTagDeduplication.go
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..9c8bc3a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/apiGo/housekeeping/VideoTagDeduplication.go
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+package housekeeping
+
+import (
+	"fmt"
+	"openmediacenter/apiGo/database"
+)
+
+func deduplicateVideoTags() {
+	// gives first occurence of duplicate
+	query := `
+SELECT
+    tag_id, video_id, count(tag_id)
+FROM
+    video_tags
+GROUP BY tag_id, video_id
+HAVING COUNT(tag_id) > 1`
+	rows := database.Query(query)
+	if rows != nil {
+		for rows.Next() {
+			var tagid uint32
+			var vidid uint32
+			var nr uint32
+			err := rows.Scan(&tagid, &vidid, &nr)
+			if err != nil {
+				panic(err.Error()) // proper Error handling instead of panic in your app
+			}
+
+			// now lets delete this tag
+			query := fmt.Sprintf(`DELETE FROM video_tags WHERE tag_id=%d AND video_id=%d LIMIT %d`, tagid, vidid, nr-1)
+			err = database.Edit(query)
+			if err != nil {
+				fmt.Printf("failed to delete Tag %d + vid %d", tagid, vidid)
+				return
+			}
+		}
+	}
+}
diff --git a/apiGo/main.go b/apiGo/main.go
index f93e28f..58575b3 100644
--- a/apiGo/main.go
+++ b/apiGo/main.go
@@ -1,11 +1,13 @@
 package main
 
 import (
+	"flag"
 	"fmt"
 	"openmediacenter/apiGo/api"
 	api2 "openmediacenter/apiGo/api/api"
 	"openmediacenter/apiGo/config"
 	"openmediacenter/apiGo/database"
+	"openmediacenter/apiGo/housekeeping"
 	"openmediacenter/apiGo/static"
 	"openmediacenter/apiGo/videoparser"
 	"os"
@@ -17,6 +19,8 @@ func main() {
 	const port uint16 = 8081
 	errc := make(chan error, 1)
 
+	housekPTr := flag.Bool("HouseKeeping", false, "Run housekeeping tasks")
+
 	config.Init()
 
 	// todo some verbosity logger or sth
@@ -29,6 +33,12 @@ func main() {
 	}
 	defer database.Close()
 
+	// check if we should run the housekeeping tasks
+	if *housekPTr {
+		housekeeping.RunHouseKeepingTasks()
+		return
+	}
+
 	api.AddHandlers()
 
 	videoparser.SetupSettingsWebsocket()