diff --git a/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/Vocab.java b/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/system/Vocab.java
similarity index 97%
rename from jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/Vocab.java
rename to jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/system/Vocab.java
index 27d4f9fe3bc..2706264d3ae 100644
--- a/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/Vocab.java
+++ b/jena-arq/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/system/Vocab.java
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  * limitations under the License.
  */
 
-package org.apache.jena.tdb.assembler;
+package org.apache.jena.system;
 
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property ;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource ;
diff --git a/jena-fuseki2/jena-fuseki-access/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/fuseki/access/VocabSecurity.java b/jena-fuseki2/jena-fuseki-access/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/fuseki/access/VocabSecurity.java
index f6caf0b51a5..c3ed62cfa09 100644
--- a/jena-fuseki2/jena-fuseki-access/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/fuseki/access/VocabSecurity.java
+++ b/jena-fuseki2/jena-fuseki-access/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/fuseki/access/VocabSecurity.java
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
 import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.assembler.AssemblerUtils;
-import org.apache.jena.tdb.assembler.Vocab;
+import org.apache.jena.system.Vocab;
 
 public class VocabSecurity {
     private static final String NS = "http://jena.apache.org/access#";
diff --git a/jena-rdfpatch/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/rdfpatch/filelog/VocabPatch.java b/jena-rdfpatch/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/rdfpatch/filelog/VocabPatch.java
index 6c4ba0a07b2..21bb283fd51 100644
--- a/jena-rdfpatch/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/rdfpatch/filelog/VocabPatch.java
+++ b/jena-rdfpatch/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/rdfpatch/filelog/VocabPatch.java
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
 import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.assembler.AssemblerUtils;
 import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.assembler.DatasetAssemblerVocab;
-import org.apache.jena.tdb.assembler.Vocab;
+import org.apache.jena.system.Vocab;
 
 public class VocabPatch {
 
diff --git a/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/VocabTDB.java b/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/VocabTDB.java
index b7f9ba13635..b4631b827d0 100644
--- a/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/VocabTDB.java
+++ b/jena-tdb1/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb/assembler/VocabTDB.java
@@ -21,6 +21,7 @@
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property ;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource ;
 import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.assembler.AssemblerUtils ;
+import org.apache.jena.system.Vocab;
 import org.apache.jena.tdb.TDB ;
 
 public class VocabTDB
diff --git a/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/Vocab.java b/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/Vocab.java
deleted file mode 100644
index f902ebe2ce9..00000000000
--- a/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/Vocab.java
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,40 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
- * or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
- * distributed with this work for additional information
- * regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
- * to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
- * "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
- * with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-package org.apache.jena.tdb2.assembler;
-
-import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property;
-import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
-import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.ResourceFactory;
-
-public class Vocab {
-    
-    private Vocab() {}
-    
-    public static Resource type(String namespace, String localName) {
-        return ResourceFactory.createResource(namespace + localName);
-    }
-
-    public static Resource resource(String namespace, String localName) {
-        return ResourceFactory.createResource(namespace + localName);
-    }
-
-    public static Property property(String namespace, String localName) {
-        return ResourceFactory.createProperty(namespace + localName);
-    }
-}
diff --git a/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/VocabTDB2.java b/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/VocabTDB2.java
index d1517dc4995..0495269c64a 100644
--- a/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/VocabTDB2.java
+++ b/jena-tdb2/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/tdb2/assembler/VocabTDB2.java
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource;
 import org.apache.jena.sparql.core.assembler.AssemblerUtils;
+import org.apache.jena.system.Vocab;
 import org.apache.jena.tdb2.TDB2;
 
 public class VocabTDB2
diff --git a/jena-text/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/query/text/assembler/TextVocab.java b/jena-text/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/query/text/assembler/TextVocab.java
index be01200eeec..005942b7eb1 100644
--- a/jena-text/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/query/text/assembler/TextVocab.java
+++ b/jena-text/src/main/java/org/apache/jena/query/text/assembler/TextVocab.java
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@
 
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Property ;
 import org.apache.jena.rdf.model.Resource ;
-import org.apache.jena.tdb.assembler.Vocab ;
+import org.apache.jena.system.Vocab ;
 
 public class TextVocab
 {