diff --git a/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicAction.java b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicAction.java
index 74bb3bc7b..f42d431a9 100644
--- a/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicAction.java
+++ b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicAction.java
@@ -1,4 +1,38 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.action;
 
-public class AtomicAction {
-}
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.annotation.JsonDeserialize;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Oaf;
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+@JsonDeserialize(using = AtomicActionDeserializer.class)
+public class AtomicAction<T extends Oaf> implements Serializable {
+
+    private Class<T> clazz;
+
+    private T payload;
+
+    public AtomicAction() {
+    }
+
+    public AtomicAction(Class<T> clazz, T payload) {
+        this.clazz = clazz;
+        this.payload = payload;
+    }
+
+    public Class<T> getClazz() {
+        return clazz;
+    }
+
+    public void setClazz(Class<T> clazz) {
+        this.clazz = clazz;
+    }
+
+    public T getPayload() {
+        return payload;
+    }
+
+    public void setPayload(T payload) {
+        this.payload = payload;
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicActionDeserializer.java b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicActionDeserializer.java
index 86fe2c421..c09c264d4 100644
--- a/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicActionDeserializer.java
+++ b/dhp-schemas/src/main/java/eu/dnetlib/dhp/schema/action/AtomicActionDeserializer.java
@@ -1,4 +1,29 @@
 package eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.action;
 
-public class AtomicActionDeserializer {
-}
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonParser;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.core.JsonProcessingException;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.DeserializationContext;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonDeserializer;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.ObjectMapper;
+import eu.dnetlib.dhp.schema.oaf.Oaf;
+
+import java.io.IOException;
+
+public class AtomicActionDeserializer extends JsonDeserializer {
+
+    @Override
+    public Object deserialize(JsonParser jp, DeserializationContext ctxt) throws IOException, JsonProcessingException {
+        JsonNode node = jp.getCodec().readTree(jp);
+        String classTag = node.get("clazz").asText();
+        JsonNode payload = node.get("payload");
+        ObjectMapper mapper = new ObjectMapper();
+
+        try {
+            final Class<?> clazz = Class.forName(classTag);
+            return new AtomicAction(clazz, (Oaf) mapper.readValue(payload.toString(), clazz));
+        } catch (ClassNotFoundException e) {
+            throw new IOException(e);
+        }
+    }
+}
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