diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0001_initial.py b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0001_initial.py
index b7823585d391e867ca18f304acd39ba6aabbc174..0873463f95a71d78760de56806ea31bea2a35d2a 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0001_initial.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/migrations/0001_initial.py
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-# Generated by Django 1.11 on 2019-01-15 10:40
+# Generated by Django 1.11 on 2019-02-28 01:14
 from __future__ import unicode_literals
 
 from django.conf import settings
 from django.db import migrations, models
 import django.db.models.deletion
+import djangoldp.fields
 
 
 class Migration(migrations.Migration):
@@ -20,7 +21,7 @@ class Migration(migrations.Migration):
             name='Notification',
             fields=[
                 ('id', models.AutoField(auto_created=True, primary_key=True, serialize=False, verbose_name='ID')),
-                ('author_user', models.URLField()),
+                ('author_user', djangoldp.fields.LDPUrlField()),
                 ('object', models.URLField()),
                 ('type', models.CharField(max_length=255)),
                 ('summary', models.TextField()),
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/models.py b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
index 1de259352e3d3877531d0b5287431b76b7eeb793..6222df9f515b33d049c01ae3e63a22d716f033dd 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/models.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/models.py
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 # from threading import Thread
 from django.db import models
 from django.conf import settings
+from djangoldp.fields import LDPUrlField
 from django.db.models.signals import post_save
 from django.dispatch import receiver
 from django.contrib.auth.models import User
@@ -11,7 +12,7 @@ from django.contrib.admin.models import LogEntry
 
 class Notification(models.Model):
     user = models.ForeignKey(settings.AUTH_USER_MODEL, related_name='inbox')
-    author_user = models.URLField()
+    author_user = LDPUrlField()
     object = models.URLField()
     type = models.CharField(max_length=255)
     summary = models.TextField()
diff --git a/djangoldp_notification/urls.py b/djangoldp_notification/urls.py
index eba34c7093cff8a479b3127af9975b21147804ec..1b3c6e5b42acf33a9df1d30f6fa96bf54d123502 100644
--- a/djangoldp_notification/urls.py
+++ b/djangoldp_notification/urls.py
@@ -2,9 +2,9 @@
 from django.conf.urls import url
 from .models import Notification, Subscription
 from djangoldp.views import LDPViewSet
-from djangoldp.permissions import InboxPermissions
+#from djangoldp.permissions import InboxPermissions
 
 urlpatterns = [
-    url(r'^notifications/', LDPViewSet.urls(model=Notification, permission_classes=(InboxPermissions,))),
+    url(r'^notifications/', LDPViewSet.urls(model=Notification)), #permission_classes=(InboxPermissions,))),
     url(r'^subscriptions/', LDPViewSet.urls(model=Subscription)),
 ]