Want to transfer metadata between batches of image files

I'm starting a major project to analyse and annotate collection large photo of my family.  I want to be able to scan pictures in very high resolution, then send lower resolution copies of the pictures to my parents, who live in another State, to annotate.  To do this, I was wondering if all of us who work in Lightroom would be the best approach.  My question is about how to transfer metadata additions my parents made on copies of lower resolution image files in files high resolution, I had planned to stay on my computer at the moment.  I thought about putting all the pictures in a file hierarchy, assigning file names when I Scan photos and sending of various subsets of the file tree at my parents to annotate.  Once they have made mark a group of image files, I would try to merge the metadata for this group of files in my files corresponding high-resolution.

There are thousands of pictures, so I would like to send lots of pictures of them to annotate and receive lots returns with metadata to merge in my files.  Each annotated file potentially has this unique metadata file and needs to be associated with its file high-resolution correspoinding.

I am very new to Adobe applications that appear to be candidates for this type of work (elements of Lightroom, Bridge).  I see a few possible solutions but do not know what will be best.  Can anyone help point me in the right direction?  At this point, I am very open to all options.  I am also a professional software developer and you could write the code, if necessary, but I want only to go down that path if I really have to.

Thank you!

David Madrian

Do you have parents Lightroom? If Yes, then it is simple:

  1. export a subset as catalog with previews and without original.
  2. send to parents,
  3. Let them open the catalogue and annotate,
  4. receive the catalogue of their parents,
  5. import in your main catalog.

If not, I think with this workaround:

  1. Select a subset, save metadata (this is important!) and export with the originals to an intermediate catalog,.
  2. Navigate to your folder of intermediate catalog, find the originals exported and the batch-under-sampled them for sending.
  3. Send files sous-échantillonnées parents.
  4. Ask them to annotate files with a few good utility that uses good fileds IPTC or XMP (not some metadata owners). The ExifTool GUI free might work well.
  5. Receive files and write sous-échantillonnées intermediate catalog files. Now the files include annotations.
  6. Intermediate catalog open and reading metadata. Now the intermediate catalogue with annotations.
  7. Open the main catalog and import the intermediate catalog. The main catalogue now has annotations.

In both cases, make sure that you do not touch the current subset until your parents return the files, otherwise later import will overwrite the work you have done on the same files.

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