diff --git a/vendor/hal-browser/js/hal/resource.js b/vendor/hal-browser/js/hal/resource.js
index 941f747fe..61331858f 100644
--- a/vendor/hal-browser/js/hal/resource.js
+++ b/vendor/hal-browser/js/hal/resource.js
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@ HAL.Models.Resource = Backbone.Model.extend({
   initialize: function(representation) {
     representation = representation || {};
     this.links = representation._links;
-    this.title = representation.title;
-    this.name = representation.name;
+    this.title = this.buildTitle(representation);
+    this.name = this.buildName(representation);
     if(representation._embedded !== undefined) {
       this.embeddedResources = this.buildEmbeddedResources(representation._embedded);
     }
@@ -12,6 +12,20 @@ HAL.Models.Resource = Backbone.Model.extend({
     this.unset('_links', { silent: true });
   },
 
+  buildName: function(representation) {
+    return representation.name ||
+      (representation._links
+        && representation._links.self
+        && representation._links.self.name);
+  },
+
+  buildTitle: function(representation) {
+    return representation.title ||
+      (representation._links
+        && representation._links.self
+        && representation._links.self.title);
+  },
+
   buildEmbeddedResources: function(embeddedResources) {
     var result = {};
     _.each(embeddedResources, function(obj, rel) {