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.