diff --git a/annotation-dereferenciation/src/main/java/eu/europeana/annotation/dereferenciation/MetisDereferenciationClient.java b/annotation-dereferenciation/src/main/java/eu/europeana/annotation/dereferenciation/MetisDereferenciationClient.java
index 5a213ea3a..e6714df3b 100644
--- a/annotation-dereferenciation/src/main/java/eu/europeana/annotation/dereferenciation/MetisDereferenciationClient.java
+++ b/annotation-dereferenciation/src/main/java/eu/europeana/annotation/dereferenciation/MetisDereferenciationClient.java
@@ -100,25 +100,6 @@ String encodeUrl(String url) throws UnsupportedEncodingException {
 	return URLEncoder.encode(url, "UTF-8");
     }
 
-    /**
-     * This method applies the XSLT to the XML output for each of the URIs in the
-     * list and fills the map with the URI and JSON string. It sends GET HTTP
-     * request to dereference URI.
-     * 
-     * @deprecated use {@link #dereferenceMany(String, List, String)} instead
-     * @param baseUrl  The Metis base URL.
-     * @param uris     The list of query URIs. The URI is composed from the base URI
-     *                 to Metis API completed with query URI from the entity.
-     * @param language e.g.
-     *                 "en,pl,de,nl,fr,it,da,sv,el,fi,hu,cs,sl,et,pt,es,lt,lv,bg,ro,sk,hr,ga,mt,no,ca,ru"
-     * @return response from Metis API in JSON-LD format
-     * @throws IOException
-     */
-    @Deprecated
-    public synchronized Map<String, String> queryMetis(String baseUrl, List<String> uris, String language) throws IOException {
-	return dereferenceMany(baseUrl, uris, language);
-    }
-
     /**
      * This method applies the XSLT to the XML output for each of the URIs in the
      * list and fills the map with the URI and JSON string. It sends GET HTTP
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 30253d63a..0549b65ce 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 	<properties>
 		<project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
 		<project.reporting.outputEncoding>UTF-8</project.reporting.outputEncoding>
-		<version.annotationApi>0.3.1-SNAPSHOT</version.annotationApi>
+		<version.annotationApi>0.4-SNAPSHOT</version.annotationApi>
 		<version.europeana-search-tools>0.0.1</version.europeana-search-tools>
 		<version.java>1.8</version.java>
 		<version.org.junit.jupiter>5.1.0</version.org.junit.jupiter>