采用实地考察、二手数据和访谈的方法获取了潇贺古道文化遗产的相关资料，参照《世界遗产公约》和《中华人民共和国文物保护法（2017年修正本）》的分类，将潇贺古道文化遗产信息资源分为古文化遗址、古建筑、石刻壁画和其他四类；基于国际规范化的元数据标准Dublin Core和VRA Core，设计了一套古道文化遗产信息资源元数据标准，以期在一定程度上推动潇贺古道文化遗产资源数字化，为古道文化遗产信息资源的保存提供一种
新思路。研究还以潇贺古道为例进行了实证分析，一定程度上检验了其效度。

This study used field survey, second-hand data and interviews to obtain information on the cultural heritage of the Xiaohe Ancient Road. And it refers to the classification of the Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and the Cultural Relics Protection Law of the People's Republic of China (2017 Revision), which divide the cultural resources of the ancient cultural heritage into four categories: ancient cultural sites, ancient buildings, stone murals and others. Based on the international standard metadata standards Dublin Core and VRA Core, a set of metadata standards for ancient road cultural heritage information resources was designed to promote the digitization of the cultural resources of the Xiaohe Ancient Road to a certain extent, and to provide a kind of preservation of ancient cultural heritage information resources. The study also conducted an empirical analysis using the Xiaohe Ancient Road as an example, and tested the validity of the metadata standard constructed in this study to some extent.