This message posted out yesterday on the dc-general list (with following extract) may be of interest:

"Public Comment on encoding specifications for Dublin Core metadata in HTML and XHTML

2007-11-05, Public Comment is being held from 5 November through 3 December 2007 on the DCMI Proposed Recommendation, "Expressing Dublin Core metadata using HTML/XHTML meta and link elements" <http://dublincore.org/documents/2007/11/05/dc-html/> by Pete Johnston and Andy Powell. Interested members of the public are invited to post comments to the DC-ARCHITECTURE mailing list <http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/dc-architecture.html> , including "[DC-HTML Public Comment]" in the subject line. Depending on comments received, the specification may be finalized after the comment period as a DCMI Recommendation."