What form could they adopt to be easy to handle and what could be the benefits of using them?
SIOs could be 'ziped containers', carrying a document, it's description, some information about the author, the license under which it is distributed and a document establishing relations to other SIOs.
The description including the automatically added keywords, and those supplied by the author, with the possibility to add a short description.
The information concerning the author may be in a standard format compatible with existing software, as the vCard format.
Common Content made already popular the use of licenses much more flexible then the previously existed copyrights and could evolve as it spread around the globe.
The history of conception of the SIOs and external references may be stored independently as they may contribute to create social networks, in a way I'll present.
An interesting variant of such a pack, for it's much lighter, could be produced by replacing the document by information allowing it's download, such as a .torrent file, and the vCard by a DOI, or any mix of those formats compatible. This would be a concentrate of the information relevant to the object/document, not including it.
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