<p>I think a mediator between instances of software and the file format with a specific type of action like read, write, render, play, execute etc. would be better in this case. A lot of software applications can do one, more or all of the actions with one or more file formats (for e.g. image editing programs), in which case the action could be just as important as the file format.
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