Year 2000 Problem: Potential Impacts on National Infrastructures Metadata

Metadata describes a digital item, providing (if known) such information as creator, publisher, contents, size, relationship to other resources, and more. Metadata may also contain "preservation" components that help us to maintain the integrity of digital files over time.

Available Formats

Dublin Core: XML Dublin Core: JSON Dublin Core: Text Dublin Core: RDF/XML UNTL: XML Access METS: XML

Title

  • Main Title Year 2000 Problem: Potential Impacts on National Infrastructures

Creator

  • Author: Nunno, Richard M.
    Creator Type: Personal
    Creator Info: Science, Technology, and Medicine Division

Publisher

  • Name: Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service.
    Place of Publication: Washington D.C.

Date

  • Creation: 1998-12-04

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: The year 2000 (Y2K) computer problem poses a potential threat to the continued proper functioning of many national infrastructures. These include telecommunications, utilities, financial services, health care, transportation, government services, and military preparedness. Other sectors -- such as water, agriculture, food processing and distribution, emergency services, and small and medium sized businesses -- have also been identified as having potentially significant Y2K problems but, due to space constraints, are not discussed here. While public and private sector entities report progress toward resolving their Y2K problems, much uncertainty remains regarding which systems are most vulnerable to failures. The overall impact resulting from the Y2K problem to some degree still depends on remediation progress made in 1999.

Subject

  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Technology
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Year 2000 computer problem
  • Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Infrastructure

Collection

  • Name: Congressional Research Service Reports
    Code: CRSR

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
    Code: UNTGD

Resource Type

  • Report

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • CRS Report Number: 98-967
  • Accession or Local Control No: 98-967 1998-12-04
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metacrs807
Back to Top of Screen