10. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to perform at least the following, receive a request, from a device, to perform an information management operation or query directed at one or more semantic information brokers, determine provenance, ownership, or privacy of information within the one or more semantic information brokers, determine 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 distribute the operation or query among the one or more semantic information brokers according to the determined strategy.
18. An apparatus of claim 10 , wherein the determined strategy includes asymmetric distribution, and the apparatus is further caused to: determine whether the request relates to information stored in more than one of the information spaces; if the request relates to more than one of the information spaces, determine a set of information from a first information space to transmit to a second information space to complete the request; record provenance information and related metadata in the set of information; and cause, at least in part, actions that result in transmission of the set of information from the first information space to the second information space.