diff --git a/orcid-api-common/pom.xml b/orcid-api-common/pom.xml
index 3a2e1e48399..2d7a5c92a4c 100644
--- a/orcid-api-common/pom.xml
+++ b/orcid-api-common/pom.xml
@@ -79,6 +79,10 @@
             <groupId>org.hibernate</groupId>
             <artifactId>hibernate-validator</artifactId>
         </dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
+            <artifactId>jena-core</artifactId>
+        </dependency>
 
         <!-- Test dependencies -->
 
diff --git a/orcid-api-rdf/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java b/orcid-api-common/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/common/writer/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java
similarity index 99%
rename from orcid-api-rdf/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java
rename to orcid-api-common/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/common/writer/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java
index b4a7a2b40e1..b238f6498a1 100644
--- a/orcid-api-rdf/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java
+++ b/orcid-api-common/src/main/java/org/orcid/api/common/writer/rdf/RDFMessageBodyWriter.java
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@
  *
  * =============================================================================
  */
-package org.orcid.api.rdf;
+package org.orcid.api.common.writer.rdf;
 
 import static org.orcid.api.common.OrcidApiConstants.APPLICATION_RDFXML;
 import static org.orcid.api.common.OrcidApiConstants.TEXT_N3;
diff --git a/orcid-api-rdf/src/main/resources/org/orcid/api/rdf/foaf.rdf b/orcid-api-common/src/main/resources/org/orcid/api/rdf/foaf.rdf
similarity index 100%
rename from orcid-api-rdf/src/main/resources/org/orcid/api/rdf/foaf.rdf
rename to orcid-api-common/src/main/resources/org/orcid/api/rdf/foaf.rdf
diff --git a/orcid-api-rdf/pom.xml b/orcid-api-rdf/pom.xml
deleted file mode 100644
index fc67519108e..00000000000
--- a/orcid-api-rdf/pom.xml
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,32 +0,0 @@
-<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
-    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
-    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
-    <parent>
-        <groupId>org.orcid</groupId>
-        <artifactId>orcid-parent</artifactId>
-        <version>1.1.5-SNAPSHOT</version>
-        <relativePath>../pom.xml</relativePath>
-    </parent>
-    <artifactId>orcid-api-rdf</artifactId>
-
-    <properties>
-        <main.basedir>${project.parent.basedir}</main.basedir>
-    </properties>
-
-
-
-    <dependencies>
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>${project.groupId}</groupId>
-            <artifactId>orcid-api-common</artifactId>
-            <version>${project.parent.version}</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-        <dependency>
-            <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
-            <artifactId>jena-core</artifactId>
-            <version>2.10.1</version>
-        </dependency>
-
-    </dependencies>
-</project>
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 25bd928c24f..3ea11361f73 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -45,7 +45,6 @@ the software.
         <module>orcid-persistence</module>
         <module>orcid-model</module>
         <module>orcid-api-common</module>
-        <module>orcid-api-rdf</module>
         <module>orcid-metrics-web</module>
         <module>orcid-pub-web</module>
         <module>orcid-api-web</module>
@@ -924,6 +923,11 @@ the software.
                 <version>2.13.0</version>
                 <scope>test</scope>
             </dependency>
+            <dependency>
+                <groupId>org.apache.jena</groupId>
+                <artifactId>jena-core</artifactId>
+                <version>2.10.1</version>
+            </dependency>
         </dependencies>
     </dependencyManagement>