diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/factories.py b/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
index 1910325b7263f047efa07c6f8dcbe0168de0b9ec..a310f337ecbbbf8cdc260f6fbb50719ed6f7706e 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/factories.py
@@ -13,5 +13,5 @@ class NotificationFactory(factory.django.DjangoModelFactory):
     author_user = factory.Faker('url')
     user = factory.Iterator(User.objects.all())
     date = factory.Faker('past_datetime')
-    read = factory.Faker('boolean')
+    unread = factory.Faker('boolean')
     object = factory.Faker('url')
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diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0003_auto_20190404_0343.py b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0003_auto_20190404_0343.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ce5abb173ebf4d4baef439ed2de5e90a042f07fe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0003_auto_20190404_0343.py
@@ -0,0 +1,24 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# Generated by Django 1.11 on 2019-04-04 03:43
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('djangoldp_notification', '0002_auto_20190301_0418'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.RemoveField(
+            model_name='notification',
+            name='read',
+        ),
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='notification',
+            name='unread',
+            field=models.BooleanField(default=True),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/models.py b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
index 3f6b49ade64acf5ecebc2d93d33d5612883514c1..3adfe0d68e6bfb71c805780c706ab97213c6d127 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/models.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class Notification(Model):
     type = models.CharField(max_length=255)
     summary = models.TextField()
     date = models.DateTimeField(auto_now_add=True)
-    read = models.BooleanField()
+    unread = models.BooleanField(default=True)
 
     class Meta:
         permissions = (