Want to transfer metadata between batches of image files

I'm starting a large project to scan and annotate my family's large photo collection. I want to be able to scan the photos at very high resolution, then send lower resolution copies of the photos to my parents, who live in another state, to annotate. To accomplish this, I've been wondering whether each of us working in Lightroom would be the best approach. My question is about how to transfer the metadata additions my parents have made on the lower resolution copies of the image files back into the high-resolution files I planned to keep on my computer for now. I've thought about putting all photos in a file hierarchy, assigning file names when I scan the photos, and sending various subsets of the file tree to my parents to annotate. Once they were done annotating a group of image files, I would try to merge the metadata from that group of files back into my corresponding high-resolution files.
There are thousands of photos, so I'd like to send batches of photos to them to annotate and receive batches back with metadata to merge into my files. Each annotated file potentially has metadata unique to that file and needs to be matched up with it's correspoinding high-resolution file.
I'm very new to the Adobe applications which would seem to be candidates for this type of work (Lightroom, Bridge, Elements). I see some potential solutions but don't know what's going to turn out best. Can anyone help steer me in the right direction ? At this point, I'm very open to any options. I'm also a professional software developer and could write code, if necessary, but I only want to go down that road if I really have to.
Thanks!
David Madrian

Do you parents have Lightroom? If yes, then it's simple:
export a subset as catalog with previews and without originals,
send to parents,
have them open the catalog and annotate,
receive catalog from parents,
import into your main catalog.
If no, I'm thinking of this workaround:
Select a subset, Save Metadata (that's important!) and export with originals to a intermediate catalog,
Go to your intermediate catalog folder, find the exported originals and batch-downsample them for sending.
Send downsampled files to parents.
Have them annotate the files with some proper utility that uses proper IPTC or XMP fileds (not some proprietary metadata). The free ExifTool GUI might work well.
Receive the files and write over downsampled files from intermediate catalog. Now the files have annotations.
Open intermediate catalog and Read Metadata. Now the intermediate catalog has annotations.
Open main catalog and import the intermediate catalog. Now the main catalog has the annotations.
In both cases, make sure you don't touch the current subset before your parents return the files, otherwise the subsequent importing will overwrite the work you might have done on the same files.

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