diff --git a/datautils/jsonobject.go b/datautils/jsonobject.go
index dc903eb..80c32ac 100644
--- a/datautils/jsonobject.go
+++ b/datautils/jsonobject.go
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 package datautils
 
-import "fmt"
+import (
+	"fmt"
+)
 
 // JSONObject represents a JSON object.
 type JSONObject map[string]interface{}
@@ -11,10 +13,10 @@ func (d *JSONObject) GetS(key string) string {
 	return (*d)[key].(string)
 }
 
-// GetI returns the int value at key
-func (d *JSONObject) GetI(key string) int {
+// GetI returns the float64 value at key
+func (d *JSONObject) GetF(key string) float64 {
 	d.ensureKeyExists(key)
-	return (*d)[key].(int)
+	return (*d)[key].(float64)
 }
 
 // GetB returns the boolean value at key
diff --git a/datautils/resource.go b/datautils/resource.go
index 4c9ffb6..f061eb7 100644
--- a/datautils/resource.go
+++ b/datautils/resource.go
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ func (d *Resource) ExternalIdentifier() string {
 
 // Version returns the document's version
 func (d *Resource) Version() int {
-	return d.JSON.GetI("version")
+	return int(d.JSON.GetF("version"))
 }
 
 // Type returns the document's type
@@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ func (d *Resource) WithCurrentVersion(flag bool) *Resource {
 
 // WithVersion sets the version
 func (d *Resource) WithVersion(version int) *Resource {
-	d.JSON["version"] = version
+	d.JSON["version"] = float64(version)
 	return d
 }
 
diff --git a/db/database.go b/db/database.go
index e5603c5..6b91caf 100644
--- a/db/database.go
+++ b/db/database.go
@@ -48,9 +48,5 @@ func respToResource(item map[string]*dynamodb.AttributeValue) (*datautils.Resour
 		return nil, err
 	}
 
-	// UnmarshalMap coerces all numbers in AWS to float64.
-	// Force version to be an integer
-	json["version"] = int(json["version"].(float64))
-
 	return datautils.NewResource(json), nil
 }
diff --git a/handlers/deposit_resource_test.go b/handlers/deposit_resource_test.go
index b93c4b9..a50aa4a 100644
--- a/handlers/deposit_resource_test.go
+++ b/handlers/deposit_resource_test.go
@@ -47,9 +47,9 @@ func TestCreateResourceNoApiKey(t *testing.T) {
 	r := gofight.New()
 	r.POST("/v1/resource").
 		SetJSON(gofight.D{
-			"tacoIdentifier":       "oo000oo0001",
-			"sourceId": "bib12345678",
-			"title":    "My work",
+			"tacoIdentifier": "oo000oo0001",
+			"sourceId":       "bib12345678",
+			"title":          "My work",
 		}).
 		Run(handler(nil, nil),
 			func(r gofight.HTTPResponse, rq gofight.HTTPRequest) {
@@ -77,9 +77,9 @@ func TestCreateResourceMissingSourceId(t *testing.T) {
 			"On-Behalf-Of": "lmcrae@stanford.edu",
 		}).
 		SetJSON(gofight.D{
-			"tacoIdentifier":    "oo000oo0001",
-			"@type": "http://sdr.sul.stanford.edu/models/sdr3-object.jsonld",
-			"title": "My work",
+			"tacoIdentifier": "oo000oo0001",
+			"@type":          "http://sdr.sul.stanford.edu/models/sdr3-object.jsonld",
+			"title":          "My work",
 		}).
 		Run(handler(nil, nil),
 			func(r gofight.HTTPResponse, rq gofight.HTTPRequest) {
@@ -94,14 +94,14 @@ func TestCreateInvalidResource(t *testing.T) {
 			"On-Behalf-Of": "lmcrae@stanford.edu",
 		}).
 		SetJSON(gofight.D{
-			"tacoIdentifier":       "oo000oo0001",
-			"@context": "http://example.com", // This is not a valid context
-			"@type":    "http://sdr.sul.stanford.edu/models/sdr3-object.jsonld",
-			"access":   "world",
-			"label":    "My work",
-			"preserve": true,
-			"publish":  true,
-			"sourceId": "bib12345678"}).
+			"tacoIdentifier": "oo000oo0001",
+			"@context":       "http://example.com", // This is not a valid context
+			"@type":          "http://sdr.sul.stanford.edu/models/sdr3-object.jsonld",
+			"access":         "world",
+			"label":          "My work",
+			"preserve":       true,
+			"publish":        true,
+			"sourceId":       "bib12345678"}).
 		Run(handler(nil, nil),
 			func(r gofight.HTTPResponse, rq gofight.HTTPRequest) {
 				assert.Equal(t, http.StatusUnprocessableEntity, r.Code)