Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Conference Papers Conference Paper Faculty Publications- Conference Papers Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Segmentation of ancient and historical gilgit manuscripts Subject The topic of the resource Buddhist works; Character- based; Gilgit manuscripts; Segmentation Description An account of the resource The Gilgit manuscripts belong to fifth century A.D. and are oeuvre of texts which deal with Buddhist work. It is one of the oldest manuscripts in the world and is considered to be a milestone in the history of Buddhist works in India. It is a collection of both official and unofficial Buddhist works which are believed to have helped in the evolution of many literatures including Chinese, Japanese, and Sanskrit. Since this manuscript is almost seventeen centuries old it has not been able to fully decipher the text yet. It has been laminated by the National Archives of India which proves it is one of the most important literatures concerning India. In this paper, we perform character- based image segmentation on Gilgit manuscript in order to simplify and to better identify character in the image of the manuscript. The employed method gives an accuracy of nearly 87%. Springer India 2016. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Hameed P.; Koikara R.; Sharma C. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, Vol-379, pp. 443-447. Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Springer Verlag Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2016-01-01 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2517-1_42" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2517-1_42</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945908548&amp;doi=10.1007%2F978-81-322-2517-1_42&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=a78ca21ae676874233a2040341b5939d" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84945908548&amp;doi=10.1007%2f978-81-322-2517-1_42&amp;partnerID=40&amp;md5=a78ca21ae676874233a2040341b5939d</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Restricted Access Relation A related resource ISSN: 21945357; ISBN: 978-813222516-4 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Online Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Conference paper Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Hameed P., Department of CSE, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Koikara R., Department of CSE, Christ University, Bangalore, India; Sharma C., IEEE Member, Bangalore, India