1. A method comprising: receiving a request, from a device, to perform an information management operation or query directed at one or more semantic information brokers; determining provenance, ownership, or privacy of information within the one or more semantic information brokers; determining a strategy for distributing the operation or query among the one or more semantic information brokers based, at least in part, on the provenance, ownership, or privacy information; and distributing the operation or query among the one or more semantic information brokers according to the determined strategy.