I did verify that the documentation is in this case clear (see $), but I don't think we should remove rdf-data, since it goes with Jekylls overall design pattern.
If it is really necessary to keep files outside Jekyll, the use of sym-links should do the job.
Trying to work with rdf Prefixes, I get many
errors as the prefix file is expected to be in a folder named 'rdf-data':
Please remove the expected folder name for better configurability.