Many ontologies developed with Protege relies on catalog files to map the IRI of an imported ontology to a local file name or a resolvable URL.
To support that, would it make sense to add an optional dict as argument `irimaps` to Ontology.load()? If given, it would be used to map `base_iri` to a resolvable file name or web location. Most importantly, it should be passed on to recursive calls to Ontology.load() when loading imported ontologies.
EMMO-python has a read_catalog() utility function (see
https://github.com/emmo-repo/EMMO-python/blob/f5a3046/emmo/utils.py#L127) that could be copied/adapted to initialise `irimaps` from a Protege catalog file.
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